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May 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM
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By Purplesque via - well, others. Go read her post here.

I had a long post, based on Today is a good day to die (qapla!) Yes, I know. It is a stolen phrase and it has 7 words (8 if you count Qapla!).

And it's not that I want to die - far from it. Lotsa life left in me yet!

I just think we fear death too much now. Shit, I DO NOT WANT to be 85, incontinent, incapable and kept alive by machines because it can be done. I want to die with dignity. And to me, that is what Today is a good day to die is about. Being willing to give up life. To know death has a place in living - there can be no living without dying.

But shit - that's not really a life memoir, is it - more a way of living, an attitude to how to conduct one's life.

Then it hit me.

I have never followed the rules.

Six words, and so, so true.

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on the euthanasia topic: I saw an old woman at a restaurant over the weekend - held up by a younger (but still old) son (I'm assuming) on each side, walking out of the restaurant at a pace of about 1" per step, resting every 3' of so.

I couldn't stop watching her and wondering what makes her go on. And WHY she wasn't in a wheelchair instead. That 1" was a major effort for her. Where did she get the fortitude to keep doing it anyway? I wanted to ask her so many questions - because all I could think was that, under similar circumstances, I'd opt for wheelchair or killing myself. To me, it was no quality of life. What did she see that I didn't?

My mother made sure I had power of attorney for her a few years ago, because she knows I'm the only one out of my siblings who (a) really believes her when she says to take her out into a field and shoot her if she gets Alzheimer's like her father, and that she wants DNR (do not resuscitate) tattooed across her chest, and (b) will actually make sure it gets done. She firmly believes that there are states of living worse than death, and wants to avoid them at all costs. Qapla!