Getting older...

.... is a pisser - folk that you're fond of start dying. Dreading the time
when it's folk I love.

 

Sometimes they don't even wait until you get old.

 

You beat me to it. When I was 19, a girl I'd been at school with was found
dead. She'd been in her flat, alone, dying. No one found her for days. Still
haunts me, that.

Ali

 

RIP Steve Hislop

 

You get used to it, then you start counting the days till your own.

Very depressing thread.

 

I've been counting the days till my own for as long as I can remember.

That's ok, cos it won't last long - my threads never do.

 

Did they catch the **** that did it?

 

((((((Bee)))))

 

Ta. Fortunately or unfortunately though, there is less than a handful of
folk I can honestly say I love.

 

Beelzebub wrote

You need a good long ride you do.

 

Mowed down by a sainsburys trolley apprently

 

"They all do that sir" eventually.

If no one you love has died in your life so far then you've had luck.
Cherish it. Don't spoil now by dreading what is to come.

It's not too late to come to France you know. Then I can hug you in
person and we can sell the tickets.

 

check your pillow, this sort of thing is really common if you have a
pillow of just the right consistency to restrict blood flow (to the
brain) just a little bit, harder or softer pillow will cure it.

 

wessie wrote:

AOL to that mate.

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I'd like to go the way my Grandfather did. Active and alert aged about
80, he was helping my aunt load the car for a trip out somewhere when
he felt a bit tired and told her "I'm just going to sit down for a
minute".

A few minutes later she went in and found him sat in his favourite
armchair, having passed on.

A bit of a shock for her, but so much better than a slow
deterioration.

 

<nods sadly>
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Just wait till those younger than you start dropping.

 

My mother died fast, my father died slow. Is it better to go splat and then
oblivion, or soldier on through the pain, falling to bits etc? My father
was razor-sharp mentally until the day he died. I'll take what I get, but
I'd prefer to hang onto my marbles.

 

Of dying

What treatments were you thinking of? Pallative care focuses on
symptom relief rather than treatment.

The last days of life care pathways would suggest otherwise.

Do they all work in one PCT or across a number?

Disagree, may be a PCT specific thing.

snip

Can't comment as most of it is still in the long list of 'listen
again' stuff I've not got the time to get round to.

Disagree.

snip

 

I decided on the basis of my very recent experience as a member of a
pallative care team to comment.

I think you have a strong emotional investment in this issue, which
leads to you holding a very aggressive opinion. I don't really have a
problem with that, I'm used to your outbursts.

However, I do ask that you extend the respect to me, to recognise that
I have observed a different set of circumstances and that what I have
observed should be considered with at least as much weight as what you
have, even though I am less incensed about it.

As my previous posts sig said, I was wondering why I was bothering
even as I was typing.

As a discussion on this issue (or indeed any other where I am
involved) without resort to personal insult seems to be beyond you
I'll leave it here.