Sometimes living life on your own terms comes with a high price.
I’ve already made the pact with a buddy of mine that when I get really really old and feeble, I’m going to try every drug to see what it’s like. I’m too scared to jack up my body (and future) now to go injecting heroin and things like that but at that age, who cares!? I’d also like to experience some hallucinations as I have never done that. I feel like it wouldn’t really be that big of a deal if I shit my depends as a giant green-flaming skull comes chasing me down a hallway.
I’ve also decided when it’s my time to go I’m going to do it in a cool way (without hurting anyone else). I’m thinking most likely a big jump (skydive) into an ocean without a parachute or something.
The only issue with my plan is that I did want to devote my body to science to benefit our future…
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
Many of old age’s attendant ailments are extremely ignoble and undignified. There is absolutely no basis to call someone a coward who chooses to say, “fuck all that shit,” and opt out. Assuming that s/he does not have any young dependents that will be left abandoned.
In fact, under many conceivable circumstances, what it takes for a person of sound mind to put a pistol to their temple and pull the trigger is a fucking duffel bag full of cojones.
There is nothing inherently courageous or cowardly about suicide; as with almost all things, it depends. Speaking of Depends, I’d rather eat a bullet than have someone change my diapers. And I say anybody who thinks differently is in greater danger of flirting with cowardice than am I.
This has nothing to do with the particular case in question, because I don’t know anything about it.[/quote]
None of that shit is an inevitability. My family members have historically lived into their 80’s and 90’s and not one of them went to a nursing home. My grandfather worked his field until he died at 85. He didn’t need to kill himself twenty years prior to that like some defeatist bitch.[/quote]
x2 Brotha giving up is for pussies.
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
Many of old age’s attendant ailments are extremely ignoble and undignified. There is absolutely no basis to call someone a coward who chooses to say, “fuck all that shit,” and opt out. Assuming that s/he does not have any young dependents that will be left abandoned.
In fact, under many conceivable circumstances, what it takes for a person of sound mind to put a pistol to their temple and pull the trigger is a fucking duffel bag full of cojones.
There is nothing inherently courageous or cowardly about suicide; as with almost all things, it depends. Speaking of Depends, I’d rather eat a bullet than have someone change my diapers. And I say anybody who thinks differently is in greater danger of flirting with cowardice than am I.
This has nothing to do with the particular case in question, because I don’t know anything about it.[/quote]
None of that shit is an inevitability. My family members have historically lived into their 80’s and 90’s and not one of them went to a nursing home. My grandfather worked his field until he died at 85. He didn’t need to kill himself twenty years prior to that like some defeatist bitch.[/quote]
x2 Brotha giving up is for pussies.[/quote]
I think that suffering indignity willingly is for pussies.
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]smh_23 wrote:
Many of old age’s attendant ailments are extremely ignoble and undignified. There is absolutely no basis to call someone a coward who chooses to say, “fuck all that shit,” and opt out. Assuming that s/he does not have any young dependents that will be left abandoned.
In fact, under many conceivable circumstances, what it takes for a person of sound mind to put a pistol to their temple and pull the trigger is a fucking duffel bag full of cojones.
There is nothing inherently courageous or cowardly about suicide; as with almost all things, it depends. Speaking of Depends, I’d rather eat a bullet than have someone change my diapers. And I say anybody who thinks differently is in greater danger of flirting with cowardice than am I.
This has nothing to do with the particular case in question, because I don’t know anything about it.[/quote]
None of that shit is an inevitability. My family members have historically lived into their 80’s and 90’s and not one of them went to a nursing home. My grandfather worked his field until he died at 85. He didn’t need to kill himself twenty years prior to that like some defeatist bitch.[/quote]
x2 Brotha giving up is for pussies.[/quote]
I think that suffering indignity willingly is for pussies.[/quote]
Me too.
Ending it if it becomes insufferable is a giant “fuck you” to the world.
Ending it because you are too much of a pussy to change is cowardice.
Alas, I cannot look into a mans heart.
[quote]orion wrote:
Ending it if it becomes insufferable is a giant “fuck you” to the world.
Ending it because you are too much of a pussy to change is cowardice.
Alas, I cannot look into a mans heart.[/quote]
Well spake
Stories from his friends here:
So who was this guy? From the little bit I read he had some sports site and was kind of a dumbass. Unless you’re just lazy I think you can be in pretty good shape at 60, hell I’ve seen plenty of guys older that get around better than alot of younger lazy ass dudes. Anyways doesn’t seem like a great lose I mean we have plenty of lame ass sport sites and weak people.
Sylvester Stallone at 63:
[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:
So who was this guy? From the little bit I read he had some sports site and was kind of a dumbass. Unless you’re just lazy I think you can be in pretty good shape at 60, hell I’ve seen plenty of guys older that get around better than alot of younger lazy ass dudes. Anyways doesn’t seem like a great lose I mean we have plenty of lame ass sport sites and weak people.[/quote]
He loved his statistics and invented the “efficiency rating” still used by the NBA today, so he achieved something. But he never got drunk once in his life.
I got sucked right in to his website and although I can see his logic, it makes no sense to me.
“…according to the care we bestow upon it, death is either a friend who rocks us gently as a nurse, or an enemy who violently drags the soul from the body. Some day, when the world is much older, and when mankind will be masters of all the destructive powers in nature, to serve for the general good of humanity; when mankind, as you were just saying, have discovered the secrets of death, then that death will become as sweet and voluptuous as a slumber in the arms of your beloved.”
“And if you wished to die, you would choose this death, count?”
“Yes.”
–Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
No man may choose the circumstances of his birth. Choosing the circumstances of one’s death, however, is always available.