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RE: Musings on Old Age and Death
Actually, I don't agree with you. My father is much better off in this (very expensive) full care home than he would be in a relative's house where it would be impossible to give him the same level of care. If the old style of large extended families all living together in a single house/compound was still in place that would be different. But modern society has broken up extended family residences into nuclear family homes and the trend is to break up even those into government/societal control over the raising of children. Heaven help us!
I respect your point of view, and as you said, it's difficult to have the whole family living under the same roof, especially now that traditional families are under threat. What a world we live in.
I find death more reassuring than eternity, and that of the people I have known affects me more than the idea of my own death.
Without death and old age, how to imagine what is going on in the Middle East, I am moving away from the subject of course!
We all have a sort of eternal feeling, believers or unbelievers, the one that will follow our death.