Problems with this section; for Frank (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 01:51 (5477 days ago) @ Frank Paris

I want to make another reply to your post, where you say, "When I am dying I want to be able to look back, and be pleased with my life, leaving the world a little better place."
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> The point is, because of the way people "die" these days, by the time you're actually on your death bed, you're probably so unconscious that the last thing you'll be able to do is think about how lovely your life in the past has been and how you have made the world a better place. Better to be pleased with that now, with the work you are doing now to make the world a better place to live, because in your death throes the last thing you'll be able to do is reminisce about your glorious past. The thing that will be most upfront in your mind is why your stupid body is still clinging to life and won't let you pass on to end your misery.
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> I wish medicine spent a little more time working on improving the quality of life instead of just prolonging sheer longevity more and more. It allows us to "shut down" almost interminably, until there's virtually nothing left of us, as is happening with my mother-in-law. -I fully agree with you. All of us want to die swiftly. An ICU can be a torture chamber. The average hospice speeds death, and I have done that in the hospital with family permission.