Yeah, a bizarre topic I know, but taking the average age on here to be mid to late 60's or even older, I just wondered if anyone has pondered their final day in the Land of Smiles ?

 

 

Not me.

 

 

???? I knew that would turn up ???? 

Who's the Reaper because sounds like he cuts grass and our bit of farmland need to be harvested.  

Reaper can kiss my ass

I think about it a lot, though more in sorrow than fear - a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia.

Getting old and decrepit is going to be unacceptable to me so I fully expect to self-euthanise at some point. That takes some mental as well as practical preparation.

more like an impatient waiting for it to end

Death...is a normal part of life...every living thing has an expiration date...how you spend your life...living each day as if you will live forever can delay the onset of physical and mental illness...live well, live free, show love and respect for all people...especially those that would try to take advantage of your good nature...they are consumed with greed and corruption...a miserable life indeed.

5 hours ago, JamesBlond said:

I think about it a lot, though more in sorrow than fear - a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia.

Getting old and decrepit is going to be unacceptable to me so I fully expect to self-euthanise at some point. That takes some mental as well as practical preparation.

Agree. My future if I don't die of natural causes holds a rest home attended by underpaid and overworked staff. Surely suicide is a better fate than that?

 

I fear not death as we all die- but I fear the manner of my passing. Few get to die peacefully in our sleep.

I've looked after many terminal people as a nurse, and there is nothing romantic about dying in a hospital or a care facility.

 

4 hours ago, brokenbone said:

more like an impatient waiting for it to end

When there is nothing to live for, why live?

I discovered too late that family is the only thing that gives meaning to life at the end. When youth and physical ability is gone, what is left worth living for- daytime tv?

6 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

I just wondered if anyone has pondered their final day in the Land of Smiles ?

I did and I left LOS because of it.

I'm ready for him.

“ Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.”

 

Epicurus 341 - 270BC

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

I'm ready for him.

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead

 

Indeed, but getting dead is the hard part. I've seen patients go through horrible things just to survive a while longer. Makes no difference though- death is inevitable and unavoidable.

 

I will recognize him right away - I saw the movie.

 

I just hope to pass along in peace which will require some planning and maybe some unusual methods... a slow pleasant descent into an increased peace and acceptance... 

I'll tell him that as this is Thailand it is a reserved occupation so he had better show me his Thai ID or I will report him to my IO

 

Now Jeremy Kyle has been taken from our screens I have very little to live for.

There's 2 certainties in life.....death and taxes...….unfortunately neither are avoidable. My only wish is that I don't end up as sausage mince on a Thai road.

 

 

Knowing my luck, I'll die at the ripe old age of 106 while sleeping peacefully!

 

I have no fears, conquered them long ago and have actually left my body twice in my life, so I regard death as the start of something new ......

 

 

Just now, geronimo said:

Knowing my luck, I'll die at the ripe old age of 106 while sleeping peacefully!

 

I have no fears, conquered them long ago and have actually left my body twice in my life, so I regard death as the start of something new ......

 

 

so you came back without doing a TM30 ?

There's a lot of evidence to say that our spirit does survive physical death, and the only way I'll ever know for sure is to experience it for myself.

 

I have an exit bag plan in place and both my kids have promised they'll assist with that, should I deem it necessary!

Just now, soalbundy said:

so you came back without doing a TM30 ?

No, that was the first thing I had to fill in as I drifted above my body ...

Knowing how my luck works it will the day when the pound go's up so I should make it to 100 ????

I must admit I did some really crazy stuff when I was young, and as some of my old friends have said, I am the one they all thought wouldn't make it to 25.

 

I no longer seek out life on the edge, but do have a smug feeling, knowing that I flirted with death on many occasions and lived to tell the tale.

Just now, sammieuk1 said:

Knowing how my luck works it will the day when the pound go's up so I should make it to 100 ????

It'll soon be easy to calculate when one pound equals one baht!!!

8 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

Who's the Reaper because sounds like he cuts grass and our bit of farmland need to be harvested.  

GEOFFREY: It's a 'Mr. Death' or something. He's come about the reaping? I don't think we need any at the moment.

ANGELA: Hello. Well, don't leave him hanging around outside, darling. Ask him in.

4 minutes ago, Farangwithaplan said:

GEOFFREY: It's a 'Mr. Death' or something. He's come about the reaping? I don't think we need any at the moment.

ANGELA: Hello. Well, don't leave him hanging around outside, darling. Ask him in.

GRIM REAPER: I've actually come for the pair of you!

to expand the topic a little, what do you think is on the other side?