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To: Lane3 who wrote (62746)	5/24/2002 4:03:03 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

The flip side, of course, is the trough of momentum. Perhaps those that feel like they have much yet undone don't go so gently into that sweet night. Personally, I would feel worse knowing that I had missed a lot than I would going too early. It may be a matter of individual temperament. My temperament leads me to grow old gracefully. When my dad was terminally ill with kidney cancer, but still well enough to do a few things and to travel, I asked him if there was anywhere he would like to go, or anything that he would like to do. He said, no, that he had done just about everything he had wanted to in life, and seen just about everything he ever wanted to see, so he was happy just to do his usual stuff, which included continuing to work a few hours a day up until just a few weeks before he died. He really did do pretty much everything he probably ever wanted to do in life. In fact, he probably packed about 3 lifetimes into the Standard Issue lifetime. He travelled a lot across northern Canada, working in the wilderness about 40 years ago, back when it truly was a much more pristine place. I think that when a person really does know that time is running out for them, it does make a difference to feel that you've lived your life right to the edge all along.