Dying - he is

Joseph Finley: [to Alma] They say if we go with them, we'll live forever. And that's good. It's probably going to take you an eternity to forgive me...

The old man grows weaker and more battling age…refusing to return home…my mind is filled with mixed emotion and the heart…that’s ice cold…why? Dun know? They admitted him in a hospital and my cousin docs spoke over there to the docs tendering him. You cant fight old age. Dats true

I ask you …If you know you gonna die, can you decide where you want to die? How you want to die? He want to die on the ground he grew up...under the tree he played under.....the smell of the soil he walked on...what right do I have to say no

Everybody dies.
I just read an article over the net about flu vaccinations coming out next month for the upcoming flu season. The article mentions that about 36,000 Americans will die this year, as they do pretty much every year, from the flu. Where’s the multi-billion dollar effort in public health improvements to mitigate the loss of life from the flu? “Ah,? you say, “You poor deluded fool, those are natural deaths. Nothing we can do abut that.

Regrettable and all that, but it’s not the same thing as terrorism!?
What is natural death? Is it not dying of old age an natural death.....
I grow tired of mentioning that about thousands that will die in automobile accidents this year. About humans that will be murdered by other humans this year. And about that same number of humans that will kill themselves. Somehow that all just seems to be part of the cost of doing business to everyone except the people who loved them.

Everybody gets to die. Not everybody gets to choose how or when, except perhaps for those poor, desperate 16 thousand that take their own lives, but everybody gets to die. Not everybody gets to live. Not when they choose to live their lives in fear.

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Dying is easy. Living is hard. Everybody gets to die. Not everybody gets to live. There’s a danger in paying so much attention to the deaths of a relative few, however horrifying, that we lose sight of what it means to live. There’s more to life than the fear of death. There’s more to living than trying to protect yourself by killing others; or endorsing and supporting the killing of others. Living in fear makes people do terrible things, and no one is immune to that - not “them,? not “us.? But living is hard. Living life in faith is harder still.

I’ve been trying to write a post on how not choosing to die is not the same as choosing to live. It reflects much of what’s been going on in my life, and the lives of my family; Many people have a hard time to realize that yes indeed they will pass on some day. (I personaly try not to think about it) and by doing this it gives me a chance to focus on how to make the best of my self and live to experience as much as possible. honestly I wish that more of you would feel this way!! and just remember:

“Do not fear death; rather the inadequate life.”