'All hope abandon ye who enter here'

fact is that it probably isn't too bad - everyone is dying to do it ...

I consider myself lucky in a strange way ...

Having had to learn at a young age(mother killed when I was 3 or 4 and father brother and step mother killed when I was 20) that death is the end result made it easier to accept life for what it really is ....

... a place where you have to like and respect yourself!

If not - then you become another person who looks for government to kiss the boo boo's ...

condyk wrote in post #2320321
I will die of a stroke watching Sky Sports with a half eaten Curry on my lap, then be chowed by my two cats and found 2 months later when my workmates notice I hadn't shown for a while. I somehow find that very amusing. Either that or chowed by Hyena when I pop out for a Jimmy Riddle when camping in Africa. Hey ho

I like to think of me dying doing something really cool.. Like skydiving, or climbing Mount Everest.. or on safari in Africa.. For some reason I want to die with a splash so to speak.. But, I'll probably die old and gray with grandbabies around......
hey, Dave.. what's a jimmy riddle?..

sari

saravrose wrote in post #2322312
I like to think of me dying doing something really cool.. Like skydiving, or climbing Mount Everest.. or on safari in Africa..

The longer you live, the less likely that is to happen. My dad died at the age of 98. He was doing the most exciting thing he was capable of at the time---eating breakfast. It wasn't sad...it was just a quiet end to a very full life.

Be careful what you wish for.

belmondo wrote in post #2322335
The longer you live, the less likely that is to happen. My dad died at the age of 98. He was doing the most exciting thing he was capable of at the time---eating breakfast. It wasn't sad...it was just a quiet end to a very full life.

Be careful what you wish for.

very true. and I probably don't want to really die skydiving It's just a silly fantasy..

belmondo wrote in post #2322335
The longer you live, the less likely that is to happen. My dad died at the age of 98. He was doing the most exciting thing he was capable of at the time---eating breakfast. It wasn't sad...it was just a quiet end to a very full life.

Be careful what you wish for.

My grandmother is 98, she is the only grandperson that I have left. She still lives alone and despite being almost blind she still does a lot of things herself.

Gee, I dropped in on a real cheery time over here.

short5 wrote in post #2322433
Gee, I dropped in on a real cheery time over here.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for the decline into communicable diseases including plague...

Permagrin wrote in post #2322457
Yeah, I'm just waiting for the decline into communicable diseases including plague...

Have I told you about my carbuncle? (speaking of plagues)

belmondo wrote in post #2322489
Have I told you about my carbuncle? (speaking of plagues)

I'm hoping that like in Sherlock Holmes, you are referring to the gem? Jewelry is a good segue out of death.

Permagrin wrote in post #2322507
I'm hoping that like in Sherlock Holmes, you are referring to the gem? Jewelry is a good segue out of death.

Actually, I was thinking of 'Forever Amber.'

Speaking of jewels, I always thought Bijou was a generic name for theatres. My wife and I are listening to the biography of Marie Antoinette in the car (the unabridged book on 17 CDs). I learned today the 'bijou' means jewel in French (or something along those lines). It also meant something else in 18th century France, but that's another of those subjects I'd have to ban myself for mentioning.

(I'm hoping to pull the thread farther away from death to a subject more agreeable to the women in the thread. BTW, is that sexist?)

Are we still talking about death, here? Isn't it time for some of you to post a photo or something?!?!:p

saravrose wrote in post #2322312
hey, Dave.. what's a jimmy riddle?..

WOT Don't any of you people speak Cockney or have access to Google

condyk wrote in post #2322873
WOT Don't any of you people speak Cockney or have access to Google

Come on condyk, the nearest most photogs on here get to cockney is dick van dyke in Mary Poppins. Just thinking about it still makes me wince. Not the worst film ever but possibly the worst accent, tho Keanu Reeves in Dracula was a treat too.

All the best

BearSummer

Permagrin wrote in post #2322457
Yeah, I'm just waiting for the decline into communicable diseases including plague...

Yeah, so I may have a brain tumor.

Shutter22 wrote in post #2323228
Yeah, so I may have a brain tumor.

I had a brain lapse at least. went to the ATM this morning, put in the card, punched 300 SEK, took the card and then...I don't remember hearing the sound of the cash and slip coming out. I didn't take the cash, just walked away. Of course the guy after never even yelled at me about the money, so I lost 300 SEK.