I suspect we only have nerve endings if we want to....
The thing that frightens me isn't the business of dying but the possibility of a long drawn out senility. I've seen too many people who have lived on and on and on, long after any real quality of life has been taken away- people bed-ridden or chair-ridden, unable to make real conversation, mentally stuck in the good old days or- worst of all- trapped by Altzheimers into running through the same little twenty second bout of anxiety over and over again.
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Date: 2005-10-28 09:00 am (UTC)The thing that frightens me isn't the business of dying but the possibility of a long drawn out senility. I've seen too many people who have lived on and on and on, long after any real quality of life has been taken away- people bed-ridden or chair-ridden, unable to make real conversation, mentally stuck in the good old days or- worst of all- trapped by Altzheimers into running through the same little twenty second bout of anxiety over and over again.