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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Graystone who wrote (41790)6/25/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
I am not sure the whole thing about dying is simple at all. While I agree with you (if I understand you correctly) that some people may simply be waiting until they are too helpless to make Living Will kinds of decisions, maybe other people who do think they would not want to be helpless actually change their minds when the only other option is death.

Today my husband and I drove by an old woman sitting in the doorway of a senior home in her wheelchair. She obviously could not walk, and was kind of drooping forward, but she was looking at a beautiful garden that had caught my eye as well. My husband remarked that he would never want to be like that, and of course since he was driving in the car out to the beach at sunset for a lovely dinner out at the Irish Cultural Center, from his perspective she had not much of a life.

But for her, it was still life, and there were still things to enjoy with the senses she still could use. So she may have felt very different about whether her life was worth living. She might have been looking forward to the lovely tapioca pudding she was going to have for dessert, or a favorite tv show coming on this evening. Or she may not, of course. I am just saying that as life is obviously drawing to a close, maybe the evaluation process of what makes life worth living changes for some people, who are grateful to breathing and hearing music in situations we think would be horrendous, but are much preferable to death.
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