I'm not all that curious about what comes next, but nor am I affraid of it. I don't mind Death, and I have been known to wish people dead without any malignancy but merely because they'd be better off that way.
I was happy when my great-grandmother died. She was 104, half-blind, half-deaf and 100% tired of life. Good on her when she finally went.
I'd be happy for my grandmother to die. She was recently committed to a care-home against her own (somewhat erratic) will due to severe dementia, and then had to be moved to a closed psychiatric ward a few days ago. She doesn't recognise her family, yet spend all her time crying about how her boys never come to visit her, even when they're sitting right in front of her. She's not happy, and probably never will be again. Nobody here can do anything for her, and even if i never liked the bigotted old hag, I still don't wish this sort of life on her.
If there is an after-life, I'm sure it's no worse than this one, anyway. I'm not saying we'll be dancing in meadows for eternity (God, how boring!), but I'm sure it'll be perfectly all right.
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Date: 2005-10-28 04:06 am (UTC)I was happy when my great-grandmother died. She was 104, half-blind, half-deaf and 100% tired of life. Good on her when she finally went.
I'd be happy for my grandmother to die. She was recently committed to a care-home against her own (somewhat erratic) will due to severe dementia, and then had to be moved to a closed psychiatric ward a few days ago. She doesn't recognise her family, yet spend all her time crying about how her boys never come to visit her, even when they're sitting right in front of her. She's not happy, and probably never will be again. Nobody here can do anything for her, and even if i never liked the bigotted old hag, I still don't wish this sort of life on her.
If there is an after-life, I'm sure it's no worse than this one, anyway. I'm not saying we'll be dancing in meadows for eternity (God, how boring!), but I'm sure it'll be perfectly all right.