Given the choice, would you like to die early?

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Spooling this off from another post I saw on here:
photoshop said:
you only live once you might aswell go out with a bang!

Smoking is good for you. Why? Do you want to live till your 100 with next to no state pension in some stinkin old peoples home still playing on a pentium 3 500mhz@510mhz?
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So does that mean you should **** your given life away up the wall, or simply make the most of your given time?

Part of me sees where Photoshop is coming from. Life isn't too rosey once you get past 65. Usually people aged 85 onwards, are on their own and unable to care for themselves - these are then put in old folk's home. Not something I'd wish on anybody, TBH.

I accept that people are mobile and able to care for themselves beyond the age of 85 - but these people are rare.

So I put this question to you: Given the choice, would you like to die early?

Please state reasons, along with your answer. I'd prefer no single-line posts.

Myself, I'd like to make the most of my given life. If I was senile enough to realise there isn't much left of my life worth living, I'd go on a self-destruct path. Not necessarily by committing suicide or smoking or drinking myself to dead - that's the easy way out.

No swearing

Gilly
 
I'd like to live a fruitful life but I am also willing to acknowledge the idea that I may have to sacrifice myself to save another.

Buddah said that everything is impermanent, hence it matter little whether we live as kings or paupers in this life as we cannot retain it for the next.
A person should acknowledge that everything is subject to change, and that we are each mortal. Life is precious, but it is also fragile. So you should have as much confidence in yourself as possible, and as much forgiveness and compassion for others as possible.
 
No, I want what I've seen in my grandparents.

Sure they're dying, but seeing them still hold hands is something I want when I'm their age.
 
No way, I am in remission from cancer (13 months and all clear :)) and when I was in hospital having chemo I wanted to cherish every single day I could. There was a time last xmas when it was 50/50 I'd see my next birthday and it scared me crapless.. now, even if I'm having a dog of a day and things are going bad at work I can put it into perspective, take a deep breath, look past the fools and office politics and think about the beautiful green planet we live on. I have an almost obsessive affinity with the sea and the coast now, can't get enough of craggy cliffs and coastal walks.

There is a fine balance between wanting to enjoy your life and smoking/drinking it up the wall I think.

I want to see as many days as possible, until I'm not viable enough to see another and I'm only 34 :)
 
wouldnt want to die early as such, but i dont want to be senile and worst of all if i couldnt recognise my own sister i dont think i'd want to be alive then, not that i'd really know otherwise at that point.
 
i was happy to make it to 25. that was my milestone in life to be honest as i have a tendency to do stupid and dangerous things.

now its 30.... :D
 
i want to live as old as possible and i don't expect to be living off a state pension hopefully i will have saved something up.

however i want to live my life to the best of my ability and enjoy it. i dont want to be struggling for breath because my lungs are caked in tar, nor do i want to end up senile. my grandmother has Alzheimer's and she doesn't really remember anyone at all and is currently in a home - that is a situation i don't want to be in.

i want to live like my grandad who is still going out dancing and playing bowls and he is 91. he has a good quality of life.

as soon as my life starts to go down the drain i would seriously consider ending it quickly and painlessly.

given the choice to die early and not live a poor quality of life, i'd say yes i'd want to die early. if my quality of life would be good, then i wouldn't.

daven
 
It is an incredibly scary idea to lose control of your own mind, especially if it was non continuous where you were full in control for fleeting moments but then would disappear again. That is what I imagine to be some cases of becoming senile.

Such a fate is not one I look forward too, but as a result I want to go for it at every opportunity and enjoy life to the full.

Smoking and drinking heavily get you nowhere and achieve nothing. So would much rather go on long camping trips with friends or spend time with loved ones whilst still can.
 
Exactly as long as i can control my body, my mind works ill keep on living the minute im weeing myself and putting the iron in the fridge i want to be dead.

Thats the first thing im going to tell my kids when i have them and they are my current age. Perhaps some kind of secret code or password :)

flash! thunder! put me down like tibbles.
 
Firstly apologies for my sweary in the OP - I thought due the context of it being used (common phrase), it'd pass. :o

I've seen the good and bad of growing old. If I saw myself growing downhill, I'd probably just stop eating - and let myself deteriorate until death.

But I acknowledge that you shouldn't throw back God's gift of life back in his face, so to speak. You should make the most of what you have.
 
Just because you're old doesn't mean you're going to be a gibbering wreck in the corner.
Surely those people that are drinking and smoking themselves to death are the ones that are going to end up with the horrific death and be a burden on to others.

I'll take old, wise and healthy over young, riddle with cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, heart disease and in need of constant medical attention any day.
 
The $6m Dan said:
Just because you're old doesn't mean you're going to be a gibbering wreck in the corner.
Surely those people that are drinking and smoking themselves to death are the ones that are going to end up with the horrific death and be a burden on to others.

I'll take old, wise and healthy over young, riddle with cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, heart disease and in need of constant medical attention any day.
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Amen. Hence the reason I'm looking into losing some of my blubber, by means of jogging. One the wet weather goes. :o
 
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