When did you start to think about dying?

When diagnosed with cancer at 55, then chronic chest condition (thanks to chemo), at 57. Again now at 59 waiting for triple bypass. It’s been an interesting few years but still got a pulse. Pride myself on being a collector of incurable diseases. Got more than erimus has newspaper clippings (btw erimus - your name autocorrects to ‘drinks’)
 
steve0 said:
When diagnosed with cancer at 55, then chronic chest condition (thanks to chemo), at 57. Again now at 59 waiting for triple bypass. It’s been an interesting few years but still got a pulse. Pride myself on being a collector of incurable diseases. Got more than erimus has newspaper clippings (btw erimus - your name autocorrects to ‘drinks’)
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Keep on keeping on Steve
 
I worry more about other people dying than I do myself.

Don't people return to religion in their later years - in hope of a second chance?
 
Sometimes I don't really want to die... a lot of the time I'd welcome it. I'm glad I grew up in the era I did though and would hate to only have ever known this rotten excuse for a world.
 
steve0 said:
When diagnosed with cancer at 55, then chronic chest condition (thanks to chemo), at 57. Again now at 59 waiting for triple bypass. It’s been an interesting few years but still got a pulse. Pride myself on being a collector of incurable diseases. Got more than erimus has newspaper clippings (btw erimus - your name autocorrects to ‘drinks’)
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What's ur chest condition if you don't mind me asking?
I had cancer a few yrs back and developed a issue in my chest also from chemo.
I started thinking of death at 5 as when told about it I was haunted for yrs.
I think about it on and off now (aged 44) but it doesn't bother me as much, it's sad, inevitable and part of life.
 
Brian Marwood said:
I know this is quite morbid but I wil be turning 50 in a few months and the last 20 years have passed so quickly. Celebrating my 30th birthday feels like a few months ago. If the next 20 pass by as quickly then I will be 70 in the blink of an eye. My body has started feeling old in the past few years, my joints ache, it's an effort to get off the sofa and climb the stairs, I can't have a full nights sleep without waking for a pee at least once..... I am actually starting to get old!

All of this now makes me realise that my life has been like a three week holiday, the first week is just wild and carefree, the second week is more relaxing and at a slower pace and the final week you try to do as much as possible knowing it will be coming to end in a while.

So much of my thinking time now is consumed with what happens after, pensions, property, finances, my wife, my kids. What do I need to get done for them.

When did you start to realise that you are getting old and approaching that 'final week' of your three week holiday?
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Fifty!!, Get some years then come back with the question.😎
Sounds like you're having a bit of a midlife wobble,
 
Chisel said:
What's ur chest condition if you don't mind me asking?
I had cancer a few yrs back and developed a issue in my chest also from chemo.
I started thinking of death at 5 as when told about it I was haunted for yrs.
I think about it on and off now (aged 44) but it doesn't bother me as much, it's sad, inevitable and part of life.
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Bronchiectasis Chisel. Wake up every morning with loads of crap in my tubes. Satisfying clear out though
 
HarryVegas said:
Don't know about feeling old, as such, but the fact we're only here the once and that life is there to be seized was reinforced 10 years ago when I had a stroke. It made me reassess what's important, and my life has improved immeasurably since.
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Likewise Harry 👍
 
steve0 said:
Bronchiectasis Chisel. Wake up every morning with loads of crap in my tubes. Satisfying clear out though
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Sounds a right pain but the clearing I can imagine is 👍🏻
I developed sarcoidosis which affected my lymph nodes and my right lung, felt like I had a chest infection for yrs. Doing better at the mo 🤞
 
I’m 50 I’ve been ill since May. Not life threatening just massively debilitating. Every doctor I have seen are all coming across as unhelpful and uncaring. So I think about dying on a daily basis, and about taking my own life on a daily basis. I’d much prefer to be dead.
 
Looks like we are all, roughly, similar ages.
Not really thought about too much, had a bit of trouble with the old ticker last year and di the treadmill etc, but nothing to be found and I was fine.
On statins, 40mg a day, as even with a controlled diet my cholesterol was through the roof.
Just lost 6kgs with the 5/2, and feeling a lot better, down to 90kg now (6 foot 3 so don't look too bad)
Dad died last year, not the fittest bloke ever, bless him. Smoked and drank, triple heart bypass at 60 (when he finally gave up the fags), died of scepsis last year aged 73.
Still relatively fit, go on long walks (tramps they call the over here) of 4 or 5 days at a time, staying in huts etc.
I think the older you get, and the more friends and family get ill and pop off this mortal coil, the more you will think about it.
 
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