posted on Jan, 4 2009 @ 09:00 AM
What age do you think of as being old? My grandfather (my dads father) was born Sept.13th 1891, and retired the same year I was born, Sept.13th 1955.
he lived until March 5th 1991, just 20 days later I lost my dad. Up till the day he died, he could still remember the turn of the century. I have read
here how a few are afraid of death. Well, i`ve seen it in my family from the age of three on. My parents are both gone. I have lost every aunt and
uncle from both sides of the family, 17 of them, both sets of grandparents and two of my four other brothers and one sister inlaw. I am the youngest
of five boys. And the last of us have had our share of hospital stays.
Death? What`s there to be afraid of? It`s just a normal part of being here. Your born, you live, you die. Some go early, some stay for the duration,
however long that may be. I do miss my family very much, as anyone would, beings we were all very close, but I do know that one day i`ll get to be
with them again. We never know when that day will get here, it could be today or years down the road, who knows. It`s not worth the worry.
When I was younger, I use to fret over being the last one to go. I was the youngest of the boys, and the youngest of all my cousins. Then it hit me
one day, why worry about it, who`s to say I wll be the last? You can`t spend your days in worry over it, life goes on, and death will come one day, we
just never know when and for what reason.
By the way OP, why call older people "geezers"?
[edit on 4-1-2009 by FiatLux]