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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 11:32:22 GMT -5
You might at least want to make arrangements for your cats. I'm hoping they'll find a home with fellow fans. To sweeten the offer, each cat will come with approximately 3,000 comics.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 11:32:37 GMT -5
I'm fine with being put in a gunny-sack and tossed in a drainage ditch. Is this before or after your demise? I mean, are we talking about, like, today? I know Rob & Cei-U!, at least, aren't too terribly far from Idaho ...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 7, 2014 11:39:17 GMT -5
I'm fine with being put in a gunny-sack and tossed in a drainage ditch. Is this before or after your demise? I mean, are we talking about, like, today? I know Rob & Cei-U!, at least, aren't too terribly far from Idaho ... I'm good either way. Given my current workload I could use the time off.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 7, 2014 12:00:44 GMT -5
I don't want my death to ruin anyone's day. I want people to really believe I am in a better place (despite the fact most anyone that knows me knows I don't believe that) and not take my mortality as hard as I do. I will save for the funeral costs at some point if I live long. I'll have an open bar for everyone cause drinking makes me happy so I assume it will for the people there. (Except maybe Dan if yall were there, with the Cron's and all. But everybody else drink up cause that's why it's there!) My wife knows most of all that I don't want sadness, which I know is a double standard since death scares and saddens me whenever I hear about it. I guess I don't want people to feel like I do, so I want them to be happy, or at least not sad ... somewhere in the middle. I also hope, despite not wanting to die, that it is me before me wife. I don't think my mind or liver and kidneys would survive the punishment I would lay on them if I were alone. It's not something I ever think much about, but I'm pretty mindful of the fact that I have no family to speak of, & when I go, I have no idea who might make any sort of arrangements, or what those might be. I guess I should put my wishes, such as they are, on paper. There's only one space left in the cemetery plot in my hometown, & that's for my sister, on whom, as her de facto guardian, I've been paying burial insurance now for some 30 years (to the point that the total premiums are probably more than double than what the policy will pay). How cheery! I was thinking just a couple of hours ago, while coming back from a doctor's appointment (routine yearly checkup), that in 2 years & 6 weeks I'll be older than my mother was when she died a few hours short of her 57th birthday, assuming I'm still here. (My father, of course, was gone at 34.) My mother in law died around that age too. 55 years old I believe, about 5 years ago. I should remember, but I think not being there at the hospital when it happened (I was with the boys at home) maybe why its more a date I can't remember. Anywho ... it didn't take long for my father in law to find someone else. And for me, I don't see that happening, as just as the uncertainty of if there is an afterlife or not, doesn't change how I live my life now, it's not going to change I would continue to live my life if my wife were to go before me. I know I will be alone without her, there isn't anyone else in the world. I guess I choose to be a martyr over trying to be happy with someone else. But I'm fine with that choice.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 12:03:39 GMT -5
I've reached that conclusion, not that one ever knows. I'll be 55 next month; my last divorce was more than 24 1/2 years ago. I've had a couple of relationships since then, but obviously things didn't work out.
So it goes. I'm a pretty difficult person to put up with, all things considered, unless one is a cat or a dog, which by definition people tend not to be.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 12:16:52 GMT -5
just sayin'
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 7, 2014 12:17:43 GMT -5
Glad everything went so well for you Kurt.
I think most of us have thought of our mortality, especially those less healthy.
Years ago on NPR I heard a piece on body brokers (illegal in the US). Until then I was going to donate my body to science, but now, I'm going to finagle a way to sell it later.
This was 20 years ago, but the average person could get about $250K. My ex-wife and current wife couldn't stand the thought and both said it won't happen if they have anything to say about it. I have 4 children, and this on top of the rest of their inheritance, would be a good thing, and recycled parts would help people too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 12:21:19 GMT -5
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 7, 2014 12:28:11 GMT -5
I've reached that conclusion, not that one ever knows. I'll be 55 next month; my last divorce was more than 24 1/2 years ago. I've had a couple of relationships since then, but obviously things didn't work out. So it goes. I'm a pretty difficult person to put up with, all things considered, unless one is a cat or a dog, which by definition people tend not to be. Maybe if my wife and I ended up in divorce (bad ending or not) I might see differently. But mostly I still think it would be the same. I'd just be angry at her or some man (if that were the case) than some abstract being that people praise and say they were taken to a better place. Especially if she died young. Being alone isn't really the problem. It's the cause of our seperation, death or divorce, that would eat at me. And my medication for that is not the healthiest.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 7, 2014 13:01:43 GMT -5
Dan...not to get all lawyer-y...but with your lack of family, it really would be a good idea for you to have a will and some other estate planning to make sure that your property goes where you want it and not to some shirt-tale relative or escheat to the state.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 14:04:43 GMT -5
Are you suggesting the courts might not recognize Brother Power the Geek as my next of kin?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 7, 2014 14:25:04 GMT -5
Are you suggesting the courts might not recognize Brother Power the Geek as my next of kin? Given the questionable nature of his "life" I think it could lead to a court battle.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 7, 2014 15:34:35 GMT -5
I'm in good health and planning to stay that way, but my wife has never been in good health in the entire 21 years that I've known her. That plus the fact that she's 10 years older than I am led me to come to terms with the likelihood that I'll be a widower at some point in the future. When (if) it happens, it will still be a shock, but it won't be a surprise, if that makes any sense. It's just something that I know will probably happen someday. My guess now is that I'm not likely to marry again for a long time, but I won't know until I get there.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Aug 7, 2014 17:36:36 GMT -5
I might want to be cremated when I go. Just not sure I would like my remains buried in the ground for X amount of years. Plus, it would probably be cheaper for whoever is handling the aftermath of it all.
Often I've wondered how long I would want to live. Some people want to live forever, which I think would be a curse. I'd say I'd be happy if I reached 80-85. I would still want to see mankind improve as much as it could. But at the same time I wouldn't want to live so long that it would be painful to keep myself alive. Kind of the reason why I've gotten back into fitness lately since I'll be 30 in a few years.
I know my wife has expressed the notion that when we both get old, she would like to be the one that dies first so she won't have to bear the burden of my absence.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 18:22:15 GMT -5
How long I'd like to live depends entirely on my health at that age. I don't want to be in constant pain at any age. But if the mind and body are working I don't think I'd be ready to check out.
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