Not are you ready to die. Are you emotionally prepared to die?

  • Master@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    My wife (39) died in October. Her breast cancer moved to her brain and over 20 days she went from perfect function to not being able to speak or move and being in excruciating pain. Sometime over those three weeks I made peace with my eventual death.

    I dont believe in an afterlife but I hope there is one just so I can see her again. But either way life is to hard to wish to live forever. Immortality is a young persons wish. When you get older and you see what life takes from you piece by piece you come to realize that the end is not to be feared but welcomed just so the pain stops.

    • mrgigglez@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I’ve been there. Cared for my dad while he had brain cancer. Everyday was a struggle. 3 years of watching the man who made me who I am just disappear. By the end he was no one. I think about it everyday and it has been almost a decade. I’m sorry for your loss. I don’t believe in an after life either but your right about the hope to see them again. Stay strong. Much love!