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| "Hope I die before I get old." | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 5 2015, 06:28 PM (195 Views) | |
| George K | Aug 5 2015, 06:28 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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Living Pete Townshend's Dream
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Piano*Dad | Aug 5 2015, 07:01 PM Post #2 |
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Bull-Carp
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Let's see. I have periodic back pain and tinnitus. Not to mention eye issues. I think I'm still productive, and I still enjoy living. Granted, I'm not 75. |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 5 2015, 07:06 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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How long until it is your civic duty? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Piano*Dad | Aug 5 2015, 07:14 PM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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A Star Trek take on the timeless issue: |
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| Copper | Aug 5 2015, 07:24 PM Post #5 |
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Shortstop
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How long until you can get a reverse mortgage on the parts? |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| brenda | Aug 5 2015, 08:42 PM Post #6 |
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Her story seems rather sad. People can be very content and enjoy themselves for many years beyond 75. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| sue | Aug 5 2015, 09:15 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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bravo. making a choice, a personal choice. bravo. |
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| AndyD | Aug 5 2015, 09:41 PM Post #8 |
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Senior Carp
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The article is not quite accurate. As I remember her long time partner speaking on BBC radio 4 two days ago: At the age of thirty she said she was going to go at 50; at 50 it was 60. At 60 she said 70. She had a nasty bout of shingles from which she never completely got over, and had back pain that meant after simply walking down the garden and back she was exhausted. She slept in the afternoon. She felt she had lost a great deal of her quality of life. Her partner supported her decision to go at 75. Also interviewed at the same time was a man who's wife changed her mind. |
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Every morning the soul is once again as good as new, and again one offers it to one's brothers & sisters in life. | |
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| Friday | Aug 5 2015, 11:27 PM Post #9 |
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Senior Carp
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The article said that she wasn't on any meds. How bad could the pain have been if she wasn't even taking anything for it? She looks beautiful and vibrant in those pictures. It seemed she still had more to give the world. |
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| AndyD | Aug 5 2015, 11:41 PM Post #10 |
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Senior Carp
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The Radio 4 programme,interview starts shortly after 07.30 for about 10 minutes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0640j57 Incidentally when my father was about 88 and in hospital after a 24-hour-stroke, the son of our long time family doctor & friend, and who happened to be a consultant and in charge of the geriatric unit at that time, talked to me briefly about caring for the very elderly and infirm. He didn't admit out loud nor enter into any conditions he might put in place himself, but it was pretty obvious he was in favour of assisted suicide at some point. I would find it hard to argue (morally or spiritually) with someone who has made it his life to care and yet has seen the suffering first hand, day after day. |
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Every morning the soul is once again as good as new, and again one offers it to one's brothers & sisters in life. | |
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| TomK | Aug 6 2015, 01:02 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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She would make an ideal liberal on Obamacare. |
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