What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
I’ve actually been meaning to write on this topic for a while now but needed a way into it, so thanks for the prompt.
Before my massive stroke 8 plus years ago, I was looking forward to every birthday, proudly proclaiming my age to anyone who asked. I wanted to live a very long life. Since surviving that stroke, my thoughts on the matter have changed somewhat. I now know that my paralysis is permanent. This is something that I’m still coming to grips with, and there are moments of real depression in which I admit to having some dark thoughts. My husband’s father is in hospice with dementia, and my grandmother died with dementia I see that it’s possible to live too long. As long as you’ve got your health, both mental and physical, a longer lifespan is something I encourage and even applaud, but if either is weakened significantly, then I hold absolutely no judgment at all over what you may or may not decide to do for yourself.