If you live by yourself, that's a terrible fear, I think. I have often thought that I'd rather die before my husband does, although that wouldn't be fair to him.
But it seems to me, in my problem-solving lawyerly sort of way, that there are practical solutions. Sorry, "to a hammer everything looks like a nail." I won't list them, you know them as well as I do, or maybe better than I don't. Living with others, or facing the possibility of dying alone, that's pretty much it, I guess.
It's easy to say. I don't really know how it's done.
Edit: I think, statistically, you've got another 10 or 15 years, if you've made it to 70. The shorter calculations of lifespan take into account people who die young, but people who make it to old age usually live longer than the average. |
