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In reply to the discussion: Irrational thoughts [View all]

wordpix

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4. We are programmed to destruct
Sun May 31, 2015, 02:10 PM
May 2015

Call it DNA or just life/death, we'll all expire one way or another. Now that I'm 63 and a cancer patient, I can honestly say that living into my 80's or 90's isn't such a great goal. I saw my mother through 7 yrs. of Alzheimer's in her 80's - that's not for me. And my dad was sick the last two years of his life and died an awful death in the hosp. Stepfather was a paraplegic for his last 3 years. Stepmom can now barely walk at 90 and has no friends since they've all died. Uncle at age 94 is going deaf and blind. A long life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

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