Meta: thank you for the <it's personal> tag. Many times in online comments we have no idea of the emotional context of the person posting. This helps. Death su

Meta: thank you for the <it's personal> tag. Many times in online comments we have no idea of the emotional context of the person posting. This helps. Death sucks. No doubt about it. And, no matter what folks want to believe, I highly suspect that 99% of us will die sometime in the next 100 years. Maybe 95%, if we as a species are lucky. It can't be emphasized enough that you are exactly right: for many of us, myself included, death will most likely involve total poverty, dependence on family, and the likelihood of ending up in some state institution. It's a terrible thing to contemplate, which is why you hear so many people talk about heart attacks and other ways of going quickly as being "lucky"