Choose How You Die.

No, my life is not for me to take.

 

And he should be. He is going to have to be because he works less hours than I do. I do not care what you would fight for. That is hardly irrelevant to how I feel. I would rather die for an 19-year-old so he has a future than some patriarchal nonsense you are preaching.

 

I can't see myself ever wanting to die no matter how much pain I was in and no matter how bleek my outlook was. If there was a chance for me to live I'd take it. Life is precious. And I don't believe there is an afterlife. No second chance. You got what you got or you got nothing at all. I'd rather be limbless and breathing through a machine than be dead.

 

From an act of heroism, saving someone from a fire

 

You have obviously never been in a lot of pain - either physically or emotionally.

I get migraine headaches. If I had to have one of those continuously for the rest of my life...I would kill myself immediately.

If you are experiencing pain so severe that you cannot think straight, what is the point of living?

Just to exist in semi-perpetual misery?

No thanks.

 

Wel I thought about it and I have decided no to die. In the first place, I can't afford to and in the second place I just don't want to. So I guess that I will live forever.

 

Smart people die exactly when their money runs out.

 

Imagine how cynical toward human nature you would be, in one thousand years?

Also, you would outlive all your friends and family, captured in a net of perpetual loss.

 

I doubt that I would be anymore cynical than I already am.

Well I would just keep on getting new family and friends.

 

Sure, you could keep on getting new friends and family, but over time, this would actuallly devalue your perception of the concept. The fact that you know that if one lot die, you can simply have another lot, it would natually lead to an attitude that does not give you the sense of value to it, as you may have today.

 

That happens anyways. Not sure why you think it would be any different.

 

And then again it just might even increase those values to.

 

I don't think so.

The more replaceable something is, the less sentimental value attached to it.

Plus, I think you understimate the boredom factor.

Sure, you might see some interesting new inventions, but, after a time, even that would get mundane, if you just lived on and on.

Not that you can.

So it's moot -

 

I might like to live forever so long as I was relatively young forever.

But if I had to be old and/or relatively feeble forever?

Forget it.

 

Vain much?

 

It's nothing to do with vanity.

It's to do with ability to live and experience all that life has to offer. And to be completely self-sufficient.

You cannot do that if you are old and feeble.

 

So you'd be okay with a good interior, and it would not matter if the exterior looked old, wrinkled, and done?

 

It seems looks are really important to you.


I assume that I would look how I felt...that should answer your question.

 

Obviously not, I am not the one that is afraid of my own mortality, nor want to live forever.

It sounds like a dream, yet could be a hell.

I was merely trying to determine if you would still want to live forever, if your were old externally, but remained young internally..

 

If ever diagnosed with ALS, cancer, or dementia, I will probably eat a 12-gauge within 12 hours.

 

My grandmother went to Bob Bondurant's high-performance driving school at age 80 and skeet shooting on her 90th birthday.

Heck, didn't George H. W. Bush go skydiving on his 80th birthday?

 

You do realize that many cancers are extremely treatable with very high survival rates?

The other two I agree with you on.

But cancer only if it were terminal or close to it.

 

Congrats to her...seriously.

But can she play just about any sport...reasonably competitively?

If I couldn't...then that is not 'active' in my book.

 

Suicide, believe it or not, is a great deal harder than some think!

That is often why so many attempts fail, notwithstanding those that were not a real attempt.

Even what you suggest has been known not to work!

It seems incredible, but people have done this, and blown off half their jaw...and lived!

 

Pity moths hadn't nibbled on the cords...