mortality
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Teresa Trotter
@teresatrotter (4073)
• Jacksonville, Florida
7 Oct 19
Tick tock
Time is racing against the clock
A to-do list undone
Leaves no time for any fun
Schedules during the week to keep
Not enough time to get decent sleep
With each month, adds a year
Our purpose at times, seems so...
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rosyrose
@vickyrose (2236)
• Cooma, Australia
21 Nov 17
It’s been three months since my last discussion.
I felt sad to read that one of the good writers that I follow here had died at 66. I googled him and found out that he was fostered out with his brother, grew in a dairy farm, had...
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Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
4 Jul 17
More Information About Death
Right now there are several discussions here on myLot about death. Opinions vary greatly, so I thought I would offer my TWO-CENTS worth.
Over thousands of years, the subject of why humans die has...
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Carol Brown
@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
10 May 17
May 10, 2017
(Note: this post inspired by one by @nanette64)
I thought about old age a lot when I was young. I was looking forward to it! I wanted to be just like my grandmother. I could hardly wait to be done with going to...
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
20 Feb 17
My recent period of poor health has brought reality to my attention, which naturally makes me very aware of my diminishing lifespan. Oddly this does not bother me unduly, although it has made me conscious of the need to make...
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Siduri
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
21 Jan 17
Old Donegal was dying, not violently in space, but quietly at home after a long career rocketing between earth and the moon. He knew it. The cancer was feeding at his spine. It had taken his legs first. Now it was working slowly...
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Sparks
@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
8 Aug 15
This morning I received a visit from my neighbour whom I never thought to see again as she has been receiving treatment for spinal cancer. She is between treatments and was only home to pick up a few things she needs before...
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ricextreme
@ricextreme (964)
• Ecuador
9 Jan 11
Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die" - literally".
Do you have any comment about this phrase. What do you think about our ephemeral life?
Do...
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hermitcrabheaven
@hermitcrabheaven (645)
• United States
27 Jun 07
This is for anyone who has any thoughts on this.
There have been a few times in my life where I have felt hopeless enough to want to commit suicide. Thankfully, I never went through with it. My reason for not going through with...
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crazynurse
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
10 Jun 07
With the release of Dr. Jack Kevorkian from prison comes a new wave in the discussion of physician assissted death. What are your thoughts on this debate? When a patient is terminally ill should they be allowed to face their...
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fightingistheonlyway
@fightingistheonlyway (2658)
• Canada
21 May 07
life is very precious for humans, animals and plants alike. All living things try to survive and try to keep life. There is a purpose there, a purpose to keep on survival, try to find immortality, avoid death.
evolution is also...
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