What would you choose?

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In the scenarios in today's entry, what would you choose. Would you choose truth? Or would you choose to be blissfully ignorant?

-- Piper (piperdane@yahoo.com), February 18, 2000

Answers

for me i would want the truth. i have talked back and forth with my doctor and finally heard him say my condition is congstive heart failure. so i read up on it and saw that survival is often five years after diagnosis. that's cool, i don't expect a miracle to keep me alive forever, and don't particularly think i would want to.

i have become closer than ever to my family, close and extended. i exult at the marriages of my grandchildren and births of their children. as the years went by i grew that way knowing that if my dad died at 80 that will probably be my span.

when i go i will know that i did the best i could for as long as i could. my only fear is going alzheimer's disease or being helpless in a bed (just missed being a paraplelgic in 1997) christopher reeves i am not. it worries me that i could become such a burden on my family.

so eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow the grim reaper will clear the table.

-- doug (ionoi@webtv.net), February 18, 2000.


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