You're going to die the way you live.

[Jack]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflif ... pstoryview

This is an article that everybody who will ever die needs to read.

[djm]

Well, I don't need to read it, but I read it anyways.

djm

[Jack]

Haha!

When I thought I had cancer, I did a lot of inward searching and came to peace with dying. After that, life has been absolutely wonderful. It's strange how accepting that you're going to no longer exist makes existing now so much better.

[emmline]

Gads no! I'm going to die posting on C&F?

[cowtime]

Gads no! I'm going to die posting on C&F?

With headphones on ...wonder what I'll be listenin' too?

[Jack]

I guess I'm gonna die watching The Biggest Loser on Hulu and eating macaroni salad.

[MTGuru]

Dime cómo mueres
Y te diré quién eres.

- Octavio Paz

Turns things around, doesn't it?

[WyoBadger]

Thanks, Jack. Good article. Mrs. Badger and I have been really conscious lately of the tendency to wish away time. You know, "Things will sure be good when this or that changes." But if we can't find the good here and now, what reason is there to expect it in some imagined future that doesn't exist?

That said, I refuse to die doing grad work.

Tom

[Innocent Bystander]

I dunno. It seems obvious to me.

[emmline]

Thanks, Jack. Good article. Mrs. Badger and I have been really conscious lately of the tendency to wish away time. You know, "Things will sure be good when this or that changes." But if we can't find the good here and now, what reason is there to expect it in some imagined future that doesn't exist?

This is the truest of true things.
You can be almost without-a-doubt sure that this or that will change...and you may prefer the new status...but it will
bring friends you didn't invite.
Might as well just like what there is to like right now. Sometimes there is nothing better than fixing a cup of tea.

[chas]

I'd like to die old, preferably after accomplishing something like making my 1000th flute. In bed, holding my wife's hand. We'll both go at the same time.

I want to retire early enough that I can see some things on my terms -- go off with a tent, travel four hours a day, set up camp, drink tea and beer, eat, and play music at night, make shrimp hash and tea in the morning, and repeat for a couple of months each year. Spend a month at my brother's, them a month at our house. That leaves about 8 months a year for flute making. It's a pretty balanced old age.

Of course, I want to keep running till I die.

[Jack]

Sometimes there is nothing better than fixing a cup of tea.

And sometimes there is.

[djm]

I'd like to die old, preferably after accomplishing something like making my 1000th flute. In bed, holding my wife's hand. We'll both go at the same time.

Your wife doesn't object to you making flutes in bed?

djm

[Jack]

I'd like to die old, preferably after accomplishing something like making my 1000th flute. In bed, holding my wife's hand. We'll both go at the same time.

Your wife doesn't object to you making flutes in bed?

djm

Perhaps "making flutes" is a euphemism for something else.

[Ceili_whistle_man]

Jack wrote:

This is an article that everybody who will ever die needs to read.

I was with 'deej' on this one, in that I didn't need to read it, but read it anyway just to see why I need/i] to read it. My first hunch was right, I didn't need to read it and like innocent bystander says, it seems obvious to me.
Anyway, if you are going to die, do it while doing the things that you want to do. Never get to the day where you have the realisation that you have not got enough time or good health left to do all those things you should have done when you had the time and good health.