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I feel the other way around. I'd rather die while I'm alive (doing or living through something really exciting) than completing something exciting, then enteri

I feel the other way around. I'd rather die while I'm alive (doing or living through something really exciting) than completing something exciting, then entering the dawn of life realizing that I'll never do something as exciting again, and then dying. I wanna die in the middle of having fun, not in a retirement home.

misterbee 11y ago
Stay at a fun retirement home!
codezero 11y ago
This is a good state of mind to be in. I felt this way when I was younger, and as I've aged, I don't feel the same way. It felt better to have your state of mind. Hang on to it as long as you can :)
bambax 11y ago
I agree with you; I didn't get the prayer at all. It seems to call for some «pre death» period when you're not dead yet but somehow not truly alive, and I sure don't want that. Anyway our own death is unimportant since we can't experience being dead. Death that matters is the death of others (dear ones). My payer would be: let me die any which way you want... but let me die first.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  so rather than bearing the pain, you rather inflict one on closest ones? you realize there not much between (apart from everybody dying at once). you like an easy way out of things, don't you...
  - Dewie3 11y ago
    > so rather than bearing the pain, you rather inflict one on closest ones? Yep. And I should try and allow them to do that for themselves. > you like an easy way out of things, don't you... I sure do.
PhasmaFelis 11y ago
I understood it differently. It's Sheryl saying the prayer, not Dave. It's not "don't let me die at the prime of my life," it's "don't force me to live on after losing everything that makes life bearable, a living death." To me, also, that is powerful stuff.
tcfunk 11y ago
That is not how I interpret that. I think what that means is "Don't let me be caught up in grief and mourning so much that I become the living dead." Hope that makes sense. Basically just praying for the strength to carry on and learn from tragedy, rather than to be consumed and defeated by it.
- themartorana 11y ago
  That's awesome. Thanks! An interpretation I didn't consider.

misterbee 11y ago

Stay at a fun retirement home!

codezero 11y ago

This is a good state of mind to be in. I felt this way when I was younger, and as I've aged, I don't feel the same way. It felt better to have your state of mind. Hang on to it as long as you can :)

bambax 11y ago

I agree with you; I didn't get the prayer at all. It seems to call for some «pre death» period when you're not dead yet but somehow not truly alive, and I sure don't want that. Anyway our own death is unimportant since we can't experience being dead. Death that matters is the death of others (dear ones). My payer would be: let me die any which way you want... but let me die first.

saiya-jin 11y ago
so rather than bearing the pain, you rather inflict one on closest ones? you realize there not much between (apart from everybody dying at once). you like an easy way out of things, don't you...
- Dewie3 11y ago
  > so rather than bearing the pain, you rather inflict one on closest ones? Yep. And I should try and allow them to do that for themselves. > you like an easy way out of things, don't you... I sure do.

PhasmaFelis 11y ago

I understood it differently. It's Sheryl saying the prayer, not Dave. It's not "don't let me die at the prime of my life," it's "don't force me to live on after losing everything that makes life bearable, a living death." To me, also, that is powerful stuff.

tcfunk 11y ago

That is not how I interpret that. I think what that means is "Don't let me be caught up in grief and mourning so much that I become the living dead." Hope that makes sense. Basically just praying for the strength to carry on and learn from tragedy, rather than to be consumed and defeated by it.

themartorana 11y ago
That's awesome. Thanks! An interpretation I didn't consider.