Posted by Declan on March 17, 2006, at 13:23:21
In reply to Re: fear of death, posted by bassman on March 17, 2006, at 5:11:19
I had a friend who got cancer and you'd have conversations which might go "How are you?" and she'd say "Yeah, fine, O I got cancer" and you'd say "Gee, that's terrible" and she'd say "No, it's fine, I don't mind", you know, in the Woolworths carpark. And then she died, the last part wasn't pretty. And someone else I knew couldn't relax on morphine as she was dying because every time she nodded off she panicked, thinking that this was IT. And visiting a friend, she said to us, when asked how old she was "I'm 80, and that's quite old enough, it's time to pull down the blinds and say goodnight", and that's how she treated it. I'll be dead in the morning sort of thing, no big deal. I suppose we only get one chance at dying and there's not a lot of help really if you are finding it difficult. I wonder if it's worse for people who are used to being in control? I dunno.
Declan
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