This page is no longer updated, and is the old forum. For new topics visit the New HOL forum.
Register | Edit Profile | Subscriptions | Forum Rules | Log In
Hrolf The Ganger 23 Mar 18 11.57am | |
---|---|
Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
I'm probably older than you and am not so much worried about the act of dying (as long as it isn't painful) but I do have serious concerns about how those I leave behind will cope without me Yes. When you are young, death is very scary but you feel invulnerable so it remains an abstract idea that only exists in the distant future. When you get past 45, every pain in the chest, blemish or just about anything becomes a cause for concern. Ultimately, as you age you become more worried about leaving your wife and kids behind rather than your actual death. That said, I wouldn't want to live longer than any of them.
|
|
Alert a moderator to this post |
mezzer Main Stand, Block F, Row 20 seat 1... 23 Mar 18 12.01pm | |
---|---|
We have two main problems in life. One's dying too soon. The other's living too long. If I knew which applied to me it would make planning a lot easier.
Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry. |
|
Alert a moderator to this post |
cryrst The garden of England 23 Mar 18 8.38pm | |
---|---|
Originally posted by Lucas Oliver
"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy In layman's terms you are right
|
|
Alert a moderator to this post |
Lyons550 Shirley 24 Mar 18 8.58am | |
---|---|
Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Yes. When you are young, death is very scary but you feel invulnerable so it remains an abstract idea that only exists in the distant future. When you get past 45, every pain in the chest, blemish or just about anything becomes a cause for concern. Ultimately, as you age you become more worried about leaving your wife and kids behind rather than your actual death. That said, I wouldn't want to live longer than any of them.
The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World |
|
Alert a moderator to this post |
Boooo 24 Mar 18 1.56pm | |
---|---|
Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
I have been impacted by deaths of friends from the age of 8yrs. (I am now 49yrs) The longer you live, the more deaths will happen around you. My most emotional death was to my dog 8 months ago. However, I still maintain I am invincible. I just think, like Gloria Gaynor, I will Survive (unlike SJ's underpants, which are probably beyond repair) You'll still be out in the woods peering through people's windows with binocs for a while yet 'old boy'. Do you still carry the dog lead and shout fake calls whilst oggling Mrs Big Bangers at No 59? Sorry about your brother and the mutt, still think about mine every day, 9 years on. Edited by Boooo (24 Mar 2018 2.01pm)
I refuse to believe there are that many people out there that can't spell. Too f**king lazy, that's what I think. |
|
Alert a moderator to this post |
Registration is now on our new message board
To login with your existing username you will need to convert your account over to the new message board.
All images and text on this site are copyright © 1999-2024 The Holmesdale Online, unless otherwise stated.
Web Design by Guntrisoft Ltd.