Do you ever think about how you will die?

[Disney1fan2002]

depressing topic, I know. but it seems like I wonder this a lot. I see people's names in the obits, and wonder if they had any idea that they would die the way they did.

I thought about it at Church Sunday because I saw a 14th anniversary Mass is coming up next week for a girl who was raped and murdered in NYC when she went to college. I remember it in the news like it was yesterday. I think, her parents had no idea she would die a terrible, violent death at the age of 18 when they held her in their arms as a baby.

Today, I was standing in a parking lot talking to my friend. An SUV came barreling through parking lot, and out of the corner of my eye, it looked like it was turning into where I was standing, I got startled enough to lose the pen from behind my ear! My heart was racing. I thought I was a goner.

I just hope that however I go, it is quick and painless.

 

[Fairy Dust]

Not me, but I think of my Mum alot as she is elderly now and is not in such good health.

I think everyone wants a painless, peaceful death but who knows.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Years ago I used to think I might die in a car accident, but I haven't felt that way in a long time.

 

[tiggersmom2]

No, I do not think about it.

 

[Michie]

I sure hope I am looking my best for the EMT's

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

I always thought that I will die in a plane crash on a trip either to or from Hawaii. I even had a dream about it once. I have been to Hawaii three times and am not nervous at all on the plane though.
Several months before my first DH died, he told me that he knows he will die young and that it will be in the water. He mentioned it at least five different times. He died while scuba diving.

 

[dodukes]

I have like quick spasms that i am not going to be here forever and my heart starts racing , its actually kind freaky but no i try not too think about it and if death comes up i try to avoid the subject....i just do not like to talk about it...gives me the creepers to think about my death...

 

[AprilShowers]

I think about it often because of the business we are in. It sure puts things into perspective. To be reminded of your own mortality. We're not going to be here forever, and we don't know when or where it will happen.

Not to get all creepy on you, but from the stories we're told at work, the families who deal with it best, have all their ducks in a row BEFORE anything happens. It's not morbid to be prepared for the inevitable.

 

[disneysnowflake]

Nope. I don't think about it. If it's my time to go there isn't much I'm going to be able to do about it.

 

[bluedoggy]

Had never really thought about it much until recently. My DH and I were with his Dad when he passed away at the beginning of November. An event that has changed us forever. We are in our early 50's and we are now in the process of pre-planning and prepaying for our funeral arrangements. My DH said that we are NOT going to do to our DD, what he had to deal with last month. (his Mom is still here, but is elderly) I have faith in God, and that makes me more comfortable. Whatever he has planned for me, it's ok. Now that we have decided about our final arrangements, we can get on with life and enjoy!

 

[MosMom]

Old and warm in my bed

 

[MEG&MINNIE]

Back in my nursing school days, close to 30 years ago, we had to write "our own obituary" for a class we took on Death and Dying. I was only 20 years old at the time ... I basically still remember what I wrote. Now that I'm older I really don't dwell on my own dying .