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To: JerseyanExile

If I found out I was terminal, I wouldn’t do a thing to stop it.

I’d enjoy life, get my things in order and get right with God.

Not necessarily in that order.


4 posted on 12/07/2011 1:32:02 AM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Jonty30

My will says only my wife can terminate my life. No court order, no bureaucrat, no doctor. Only my wife; she’s the only person on this planet that I trust with my life.


15 posted on 12/07/2011 2:07:59 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Jonty30

“If I found out I was terminal...”

You are terminal, we all are. Time to get right with God now... :)


54 posted on 12/07/2011 4:40:02 AM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: Jonty30
Actually until one is faced with the kiss of death, you really don't know how you would react.

I have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, TERMINAL. There is no treatment for anyone over 65 unless you have unlimited funds and can find someone to do a double lung transplant. I don't have the money or desire to undergo that type of radical treatment, so I am doing exactly as you think that you do if you discovered that you were going to die fairly soon.

As a born again Christian, my first priority was to get my spiritual life in order, then I have had no problem enjoying my family and friends.

God has been good to me. I have a great family. My children are well established and have great marriages and children. Grandchildren are graduating from college with highest of honors and getting married. One of my children has been married a Naval Officer for 20 years.

I am on 02 24/7, but I can still drive, work for my daughter several hours a day, go to church every Sunday and a number of things that I can slip over my family.

Even though, I am in the last stages of this horrible disease, I refuse to not have as much quality of life as possible.

You have the drill down perfect!

Sorry for the long post.

Maria

64 posted on 12/07/2011 5:31:00 AM PST by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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