Why, the closer you get to dying, the more you think about it?
 
Now of course, many will say they don't think about dying, but I don't believe you.
 
I think of my 90 year old great grandmother.  She must wake up everyday and wonder if this will be the last sunrise.
 
Jesse Q. Screed
 
I think people spend half their time trying to accumulate, and the other half trying to hang on.
 
I know, this is HEAVY, but Sharke started it all.
 
 

I don't know how close I am to dying.
 

Keef never thinks about it.

Who has time what with all the time spent thinking about becan, women, sports, music....not to mention trying to remember all the stuff I was s'posed to do but didn't? 

I don't think about dying more.  I think about priorities more.

I don't think about dying so much as I think about eventually losing my faculties (what little I have left) and my independence. That's the scary part.

I'm usually closer to dying than I realize.  Or so my wife tells me.
It's going to happen to all of us at some point, so don't worry about what you can't resolve.  I worry more about NOT dying.  Once I retire, i'll only be able to afford a finite amount of cat food to live on...

In a word: yes. Start to think about just how short life is and as the song say's, "You don't miss your water 'till the well runs dry". The Buddy Guy song, 'Done Got Old' puts it well.... "I can't d the things I used to do, 'cause I'm an old man".
https://youtu.be/5UjW-Rd2B3o
 
I have an appointment with at the heart cath lab today at 1:15, so yeah. I hope it is a transitional feeling/thought process but it's like one day you're all here and the next day you're tired and just can't keep up like you used to, it happens pretty quickly then (hopefully) there is a long glide path. I think the quickness of the change between strong and tired is what is sobering and thought provoking. There is really no way to explain it. I just hope everyone lives to experience it and then on through it. Most of us cannot afford to die twice like David Crosby or Keef so try and take care of yourself. I enjoy life pretty much, I'm just in an adjustment period. I still own a business I built but it scares me because last month I had to work it myself for over a week and I couldn't do it. My helper had hernia surgery. I will feel a LOT better when I sell this business, then I can mentally move on to the rest of my life. I have things I want to do. It's kind of like you can't let go and you can't hold on. Life gets confusing when you change, but I expect to come to terms with it soon. You'll see.
 
J
 

I really don't worry about dying, but I certainly do pray for a happy death where it may not come upon me unawares and my Faith will be strong enough to accept it.  

I worry about other people dying.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Before they've paid their bill.