Do you ever think about your own mortality?

[buglebe]

Does your own mortality ever cross your mind? I know as I age and have more "ailments" it does mine. And now that I have grandchildren it makes me want to live forever. No not really forever but I ain't ready to go yet.

[iluvmybaby]

buglebe, I am 21 still a youngin, no kids, but with a LOT of health problems, my belief is it isnt how much time you have, I really think it is what you do with the time that you have. Enjoy every single day with family and friends, live each day to the fullest, that is what is important.

[mistressB]

i'm a bit young to be thinking about that. i always figured i'd commit suicide when i get to be too old to take care of myself. i've seen way too many elderly people laying year after year helpless in a bed, needing their diapers changed and sometimes to be tube fed. no thanks.

[Tisky67]

I know me personally my own mortality has been in my mind this past week (4 trips to the ER in a week). I know my time here is precious & I try to make every min count. But when my time here is up all I am asking is for this inscription on my tombstone-

Passers Pause as they walk by,
So are you, So was I
So am I, So you shall be,
Prepare for death and follow me.

[wndysfrnd]

Since my mom died suddenly last month, yes I think about it often. As a matter of fact, I just printed my last will and testament. If anything does happen to me, my husband and children will know for sure what my last wishes will be.

[Blackberry]

I try hard not to think of mine. I want so bad to see my boys grow up and to see their families. What worries me more is that my parents are both 67 and are not in great health. I'm scared to death of losing either of them. Plus I have 8 brothers and sisters. It occured to me once......what are the chances of all nine of us making it to old age? Would fate allow it? I have come close to losing 2 of my sisters but thank the Lord they both made it through their crisis' and are fine now. We are all in good health but I can't help but wonder.

Ok, I've got to stop thinking about this.....I'm starting to cry just at the thought of losing anyone close to me :(

[evrita]

Yup you work in this line and you really know how quickly and no matter what age it can be over..........

[YankeeMary]

Since my mom died suddenly last month, yes I think about it often. As a matter of fact, I just printed my last will and testament. If anything does happen to me, my husband and children will know for sure what my last wishes will be.

HUGS!!! I am so sorry for your loss.

Actually, I rarely think about dying. I figure I was born to die eventually so be it. I have all intentions of going to HEAVEN, so I am ready, waiting and ready. I want to watch my children grow into wonderful adults and eventually parents. I hope when it is my time it will be in my sleep, I am so against pain...hehe..God willing I will live to be a ripe old age with great grandchildren running around me.

[gwens29]

i think about death all the time.. i am 31 and have lost both parents all sets og grandparents and one sister (ihave 4 sisters and 2 brothers) everyone im my family is ailing form somehting my brother who is 41 has defibulater installed in his heart this past spring and my other brother has heart problems as well....i just try to see them all when i can talk to them all every day and include them in life any way i can.. my husband lost his brother in 2001 to a car accident and i worry all time about dying that way to the point of avoiding traveling..the more time we are on the road the more chance we have of not makingit back.. also want to live to see my grandkids and finish raising my children...life is not guaranteed no matter the age we all need to remember that i say enjoy what u have and pray for the future ....death comes to us all... it has no boundries

[ilvscooby]

Yes, I am still pretty young(25) but I often think about it. I wonder about what happens after I die too(like in a spiritual kind of way). Maybe I am a bit morbid, I sometimes wonder how I will die, where I will be when I die, how old I will be, things like that. I wonder if any of my family and friends who have gone before me will be there to "help" me along.

[MamaFairal]

I am one who also thinks about it since losing my Mom in 2002 and my oldest sister in 2000....my sister was just 46yo and they say it was a sudden coronary(she had no heart probs before)

I have also talked openly with both my DDs about what is to happen should i pass suddenly. My youngest is 17yo and she is so close to me and i know it would destroy her if i passed, and i dont know what would happen to her or where she would want to go live and with whom.

Since my health problems have gotten worse this past year...yeah i think about it alot.

[Njean31]

oh yes, especially since i began working with hospice. i've seen so much death in such a short time span :( i am definatley going to get a living will now stating my plans if anything ever happens to me. i DO NOT want to be unreponsive, laying in a bed all day with diaper changes and tube feedings...imo there is just no quality of life there. i am going to admit a patient today who is only 50 years old with rectal cancer that has spread to her liver, so sad.......she's the youngest i've dealt with so far although a few weeks ago they did admit a 32 year old man with Aids, he died within a few days.

[turbob]

I never thought about the fact that I was gonig to die until my son was born. I was holding him and I realized that the time would come when he would be doing things I wouldn't know about because I wouldn't be around. Now he is 23, I will be 50 in Nov., and it kind of bothers me that my life is more than half over. I'm not afriad of death, I just don't want to miss anything!

[CatrinaF25]

Does your own mortality ever cross your mind? I know as I age and have more "ailments" it does mine. And now that I have grandchildren it makes me want to live forever. No not really forever but I ain't ready to go yet.


i think about it all the time.. i am 26 and have MS and other health issues. been told i have maybe 15-20 yrs. It kills me to think about it. so i try not to. although MS has already started effecting me in ways i hate. Its hard to walk long distance i cant use my hands that well. i am in constant pain ( i refuse to use pain meds i have children and wont live my life dooped up!) everyday when i take all my pills IT IS A LOT! i wonder why? why me. but i know God has a reasson and I am standing in prayer for a miracle

[schsa]

I have planned when I want to die. I have thought about this quite alot. I have no children and just two sisters. We live far apart from one another. I have decided that when I turn 75 I will commit suicide. I also have a living will with DO NOT RESUSITATE all over it. I do not want to end up in a nursing home being turned over every 12 hours to avoid bedsores. I don't want to end up dying slowly and painfully. So I will choose the time and the place not anyone else.

[caides_mom]

bug i do....i'm 30 and have 2 kids, i think about all the things i would miss. i wonder what would happen with my kids, would hubby re-marry?
i really never wanna die, and i don't wanna get any older

[MsLynn]

in my line of work, i think about it every day

[evrita]

Yup one day you can be healthy and 20 sitting down for a break and keal over backwards and die.................

[MsLynn]

Yup one day you can be healthy and 20 sitting down for a break and keal over backwards and die.................

I knew you'd be right here behind me... sucks to be reminded of it even when you don't wanna think about it huh...


but what scares me more than MY mortality, is my kids mortality!!

[Kelsey1224]

Yes, I think about my mortality...but I don't worry about my mortality. I certainly want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and marry, etc. There is still so much to do and see.

However, I am not fearful of dying. I have complete and total belief in my Savior and my own salvation. My physical body may die...but I KNOW that I will live again. And Heaven is even better than our mortal minds can imagine!

[evrita]

I knew you'd be right here behind me... sucks to be reminded of it even when you don't wanna think about it huh...


but what scares me more than MY mortality, is my kids mortality!!\


Yeah I posted earlier about in this line of work you are reminded of it everyday... Even when you dont want to think of it there it is and ITA about the whole kids things I see wayyyyyyyyyyy too much of it MVAs alot we were just saying last week it is getting time for a bad one it is sad when you can sense it coming :(

[CatrinaF25]

in my line of work, i think about it every day
just wondering you sound like lawenforcement? :)

[faygokraze]

i'm a bit young to be thinking about that. i always figured i'd commit suicide when i get to be too old to take care of myself. i've seen way too many elderly people laying year after year helpless in a bed, needing their diapers changed and sometimes to be tube fed. no thanks.

Ive worked in a nursing home and it is very sad to see people just lying there til they die... and no family visiting them!!

[MsLynn]

just wondering you sound like lawenforcement? :)

i'm a 911 dispatcher, first responder, and was an officer YEARS ago, lol

[llbriteyes]

With the death of my best friend last week, I think of it more and more. If I didn't have a family, I'd have been buried shortly after my friend.

[CatrinaF25]

i'm a 911 dispatcher, first responder, and was an officer YEARS ago, lol

very rewarding job! thanks for serving the USA :)
Proud wife to a Sheriff

[evrita]

TY yes it is a rewarding job