After we all leave this charmed life...

....no exceptions. Ok, all this bloging on politics, or worse. I thought I'd push for a much more cheery topic. We go on through life dealing with worries of many sorts. Kids, bills, family, pets often top the list. But having been here for a long while, long enough to see more than a few CS folks leave life for good, some after struggling with terminal illnesses, it got me thinking. The few times I might have thought I had a deadly illness, but didn't, how the thought processes did change. Never had so many novel thoughts, some quite good, some not so much. And after learning of the reprieve, even more new thoughts. Sure, gratitude often tops the list, but what long, new lists these turned out to be. For some, it changes our thinking permanently. Well, permanently is a long time.
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Well I thought about how an animal can be put to sleep and what I could do for me.
Also when life is looked at as a whole its long all the things in it, wow, my thoughts did I do that or achieve this.
Yes through all its ups and downs I reckon I have been lucky in comparison to some.

I try and always have to put something back into the pot of this wondrous creation life.

Now I want to make sure I leave it at my choosing at peace peace
Nothing like a sudden change in perspective to re-route a mind. I watched a video recently about a heavily (seriously heavily) tattooed man who'd been - well, the circumstances don't matter. If he'd sat next to me in a bus, I'd have changed my seat. If he'd been the only other person in sight on a road I had to go down, I'd have near peed myself with fear. Turns out -

I like my perspective challenged. I think we tend to lock ourselves into tunnel vision and refuse to see things which don't fit the picture we demand. Not yet - touch wood - had a brush with serious illness but a few deaths of people I knew well have shaken my world like a kaleidoscope.
Yep, Biff, just like a kaleidoscope.
It would be a pity

to find anyone after life
A team of Israeli scientists believes a cure for cancer is within reach, even optimistically predicting that it will be found within a year.

“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” Dan Aridor, of Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), told the Jerusalem Post.
At 68 I am thinking differently now that I get to see the longevity of my folks and their siblings who have passed. Every decade seems to take it's toll on the body, something we don't think about when we are young. I'm not sure I want to live into my 90's if my body or mind is going to fail me like it is my parents.

I don't see a quality of life for my Dad. Sure he is in a nice house and has worn out his spot on a comfortable couch where he seems to live and only gets up to eat or go to a doctor's appointment. That is too sad on my heart. I watch his mind shrink every day making me want to make sure my children don't get to see me in that condition.

I would like to be able to vote to die with dignity if I get diagnosed with a debilitating disease.
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