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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm in envy of the way that he and Chris (sorry, completely unable to come up with his LT sock just now) reacted to their respective illnesses. I wish I thought I had it in me, but I'm not sure I do. I am too used to living as if there'll always be another day. If and when the time comes, maybe I should wish for an unexpected and quick demise, though that would cruel too.
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Same. I’ve had to handle a couple health issues in recent years. Cancer scares me silly. It’s the knowing and walking around in the immediate and tactile futility that seems unbearable. And the making myself a burden. In all sincerity, if it should be a long illness, as I’m watching a family member expire to now, I’m taking myself out. “Go out standing,” to borrow a Martin Sheen line I know you’ll recognize immediately.
I always take solace that to be born where we’ve been, at this time in history, is quite remarkably fortunate. We’re globally of the .0001%. If you’re in a Boeing and the engine flies off and it starts diving toward the nearest mountains, know, in a much broader and far more significant sense, you still enjoyed a very lucky ticket.
