I don't want to decline and fade away

[Mai72]

If you thinka bout it, 99.9% of things in life do not matter. We are all going to fade away and be forgotten in a generation or two.

Here I'll prove it to you. Can you name your late late late late late late late late grandfather? Yea, me neither.

More proof: Can you name these people in this 1930s photo? Yea, me neither. We are on the same path my friend. We are here now. In the present. When we pass away that will be it. You will be forgotten along with the rest of humanity. Enjoy the very short time that you have on this earth. because in the macro (big picture) it doesn't matter.

 

[Captante]

If you thinka bout it, 99.9% of things in life do not matter. We are all going to fade away and be forgotten in a generation or two.

Here I'll prove it to you. Can you name your late late late late late late late late grandfather? Yea, me neither.

More proof: Can you name these people in this 1930s photo? Yea, me neither. We are on the same path my friend. We are here now. In the present. When we pass away that will be it. You will be forgotten along with the rest of humanity. Enjoy the very short time that you have on this earth. because in the macro (big picture) it doesn't matter.

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Ozymandias

(Percy Bysshe Shelley ~ 1818)


"I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”


And most of us won't hang around nearly as long as poor old "Ozy"!

😛

 

[JM Aggie08]

My grandmother is currently in an assisted care home with Alzheimer's -- seems to be progressing at this point and she's forgetting most of us, which is difficult to go through.

Blast me into the sun if I ever get to that point.

 

[Mai72]

My grandmother is currently in an assisted care home with Alzheimer's -- seems to be progressing at this point and she's forgetting most of us, which is difficult to go through.

Blast me into the sun if I ever get to that point.

Yea. My grandmother also suffered from Alzheimers. Horrible. My mom passed quickly from sepsis and that is how I'd like to go: Quickly. Into the void.

 

[Scarpozzi]

My cousin, who's 12 years older than me, has some kind of muscular dystrophy that popped up in the past year and a half. He's lost the ability to walk, stand, and even some basic motor functions.

We ran a marathon together 6 years ago. He's 53 with 3 kids and a wife. Had to quit his job when his eyesight and mobility declined. 😢

 

[Motostu]

My cousin, who's 12 years older than me, has some kind of muscular dystrophy that popped up in the past year and a half. He's lost the ability to walk, stand, and even some basic motor functions.

We ran a marathon together 6 years ago. He's 53 with 3 kids and a wife. Had to quit his job when his eyesight and mobility declined. 😢

Same exact thing happened to our nextdoor neighbor; it took years before they finally got a diagnosis of (late onset?) MD. He could still stand, but could not walk; he'd been on a scooter to get around the last 5 or 6 years. He passed from a heart attack about a month ago.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

People should not have to feel this desperate.....

Sheriff: Caretaker kills terminally ill women, then himself

SFGate|2 hours ago
A 64-year-old Florida man who said caring for his terminally ill wife and stepdaughter had become overwhelming fatally shot the women and then called 911 before killing himself, authorities said. Thomas Schultz told the dispatcher on Wednesday morning that the family was "in an impossible situation with no way out,


They should, have had the option to go with dignity.