[ConorMacNessa]

I've survived for 67 years under sometimes onerous and painful circumstances. Was I "living" only when I was young, strong and in excellent health? And now - in my old age, weakness, and in ill health - am I only surviving but not "living?"


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[RedHeeler]

What do you need?

[Chickensoup]

I’ve survived for 67 years under sometimes onerous and painful circumstances. Was I “living” only when I was young, strong and in excellent health? And now - in my old age, weakness, and in ill health - am I only surviving but not “living?”

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Ever work in pedes onocology? Parents agree to treatments with miniscule survival rates. They do not understand that survival means breathing but not consciousness. They are handed back a slowly dying child, who has been tortured.

Brain cancer? You can survive a long time. Breathing, in pain, dying by the inch. Watching an friend do this now. Not a death I would wish on anyone.

The difference between brain cancer and your example of ill health are not even in the same planetary system.