Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Delbert McLintock Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Tuesday Night Dinner Plans? 9/17/2024 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:47:18 -0600 Message-ID: References: <4e2aed142529654d285217318747784d@www.novabbs.com> <8b3748c56205be848f0d1629f45ad18e@www.novabbs.org> <35de8a021d4e88b2059106cdfabef4b8@www.novabbs.org> <4401f9a4-cad7-05b6-f37e-105a5ca69706@example.net> <6488a33e8b7076d22f4ec2cf734c7f0c@www.novabbs.org> <4991d4d4-574e-4567-19b7-06586c8aacae@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:51:39 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="828245"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ApfhcxZJxQCgOmS1yNmH1BYoV7Q= X-User-ID: eJwFwQEBwDAIAzBNhVI2ORyYfwlPwgV1UiHGi0cs66HZZl/EjDU9clOYPZ7+nUnVKpE4s9etWFcXaHOfH07cFQU= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3252 Lines: 32 D wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Sep 2024, Leonard Blaisdell wrote: > >> On 2024-09-23, D wrote: >> >>> That would be a nice way to go! =) I think a bright midsummers night, >>> sitting at my beloved fishing lake would be a nice final scene of the >>> saga >>> of me! Way better than rotting in some hospital bed with loads of other >>> sick people around you. >> >> >> I always thought that I'd like to die that way. And then...two of my >> closest friends went fishing in a remote Nevada location. One died of a >> cardiac event in a float tube. >> There were other people around the lake, and emergency services arrived >> in about three hours. They took the body, and my other friend spent >> another three hours driving back to town to notify the other guys wife. >> He could have called her, but I think he did it right. >> Then, I rethought my own position on dying remotely. It wasn't the >> deceased, it was my other friend that bore the burden. >> > > It is an interesting perspective. The time factor does play a role. I > knew my mother was going to die for at least 1 year or so before it > happened. All words were said, everything forgiven, everything at peace. > But if the final moment would have been in the country side, that would > have been nicer for her, than the hospital bed. At least everyone she > loved was by her side when it happened. Has she been back to "visit" or left any physical signs from beyond for you?