joe royal
2:38 Wed Feb 14
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My mum died on Sunday, and I felt relieved and sad in equal measure. She had alzimers and had been in a care home for 4 years. To watch someone go from enjoying a slightly confused life to being asleep in a hospital for 8 days isn’t the best.
I’m the least religious bloke in the world but when my sister rang me there was a shadow of a fish on my beer.
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BRANDED
2:50 Wed Feb 14
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Without a shadow of trout?
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Iron Duke
3:40 Wed Feb 14
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Two of my friends have died suddenly in the last two weeks. Both the same age of me, give or take a couple of years.
We never know when our time is up.
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yngwies Cat
3:44 Wed Feb 14
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joe royal 2:38 Wed Feb 14
Sorry to hear mate.
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Iron Duke
3:45 Wed Feb 14
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I should have mentioned I’m 49. You don’t expect people to go at that age, although many do. We always think of death as something that happens to other people, or it’s a long way off and not tangible. I suppose the older you get, the more you experience it with people you know and love.
I don’t think it makes me change anything ultimately. We just go on the same.
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violator
3:50 Wed Feb 14
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When my mum died last year it left me as the last remaining one (dad and sister died years ago) and that gets you wondering and maybe thinking too deeply. Funnily enough I went for my "MOT" yesterday and had bloods done for organs and prostate etc so should get a heads up in the next day or so. I feel fine, blood pressure was spot on, i'm still going gym and running 4 times a week so I'l hoping they all come back with green lights.
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ludo21
4:05 Wed Feb 14
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I'm 56. Think about death on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day and have done so for about the last 10-15 years.
It doesn't depress me and I'm pretty happy with my lot... just one of those things I guess.
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LAF
4:54 Wed Feb 14
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Branded. Thanks for posting that article. An interesting read.
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Far Cough
4:55 Wed Feb 14
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Can you remember anything before you were born?
Of course not, that's what death is like.
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the exile
6:19 Wed Feb 14
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I have always liked these words from C. S. Lewis:
"You don't HAVE a soul, you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body."
Puts a different perspective on things, and you don't have to take it in a religious sense.
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the exile
6:22 Wed Feb 14
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One other thought - I always hate it when people say they wouldn't do anything differently and have no regrets. Bollocks they don't. Fuck off Edith Piaff!
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Far Cough
6:34 Wed Feb 14
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Non, je ne regrette rien
I love Edith (Little Sparrow) Piaf
Also love Mireille Mathieu who is probably the closest to Edith Piaf and the songs she sang.
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joe royal
6:45 Wed Feb 14
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And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life and I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
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Wils
7:12 Wed Feb 14
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I enjoy life but am very aware that the end may come at any time. I believe at my age (50) I could accept it and be grateful for the life I have had. So no regrets as such.
I hope and endeavour to keep going for as long as I can for the sake of my children and my wife rather than for me.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
7:15 Wed Feb 14
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Death doesn't scare me, my family are all provided for and the days I am not happy, I am content. I tell those that matter to me why on a regular basis and I reflect regularly. Pain in life and a lingering illness that makes me a burden, scares me so much more.
I can honesty say that I would not change a thing. My journey to contentment and positivity has been as much about learning from mistakes and learning from being weak and vain as it has been about my good choices.
Good looking, lovely positive compost.
I settled down early, (So has my eldest) I look at my youngest who went to Uni and has travelled and I wonder what would have happened...Then I remember that I have a eldest and a youngest and my 2nd wife would not have even met me if I changed something and I shake that line off. Never too late to pivot if you are truly unhappy but that is the future, not changing the past.
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Manuel
7:22 Wed Feb 14
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I wouldn't mind sticking around mainly out of curiosity just to see what happens, but at the same time not fussed to bow out anytime soon. I'm fucking tired and can only see 'more of the same' in the future, so what would I miss?
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Manuel
7:32 Wed Feb 14
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By the way, anyone that has been posting on here regularly for say 15-20 years and claims to have a wonderful, fulfilled life is not being honest with themselves and is basically talking bollocks. Truly successful, happy people would not behave in that way and spend decades talking bollocks and arguing on here, simple as that. Carry on kidding yourself though.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
7:47 Wed Feb 14
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Manuel,
You are fully entitled to that opinion...Although I strongly suspect you are judging from your own experiences and narrow view of what you define as wonderful and fulfilled.
Whether I am kidding myself and am delusional or not I AM content and happy. And I have spent over 20 years on here talking bollocks
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Tomshardware
9:12 Wed Feb 14
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As long as I get to play GTA6.
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Jasnik
9:33 Wed Feb 14
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I have a wonderful and fulfilled like ..
RUNS!
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Jasnik
9:34 Wed Feb 14
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but spellchecker is still a BASTARD ....LIFE!
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