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To: one_less who wrote (492)	9/9/2006 4:51:56 PM
From: Jim S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10087

RCG, I appreciate your thoughts. Before you make up your mind, though, try visiting a nursing home, a nice one. Go often enough that the folks living there get familiar with you, and talk to the ones that are able to talk rationally. You'll see what I mean. Yes, folks our age can have up and down cycles. But people in their late 70s and 80s know that things will not get better for them. They know it's the end of the line, and they don't enjoy their lives, and have nothing to look forward to, except maybe meatloaf on Tuesday. Or, try talking to a hospice social worker. They hear it every day.

To: one_less who wrote (492)	9/10/2006 8:34:42 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Before my grandmother became unable to communicate, my mother asked her, towards the end, what she enjoyed the most. My grandmother said, "I like to dream" and made a floaty motion with her hand. I like to dream, too. It seems to me that if you are not in unbearable pain so that you cannot sleep, that even if you cannot talk you can still enjoy dreaming. As for wishing you would die in your sleep -- who doesn't wish that? Painless and effortless cessation of being, when the time comes. That doesn't mean you want it soon.