How will YOU survive global warming?

[Skidmore]

97. I don't think I said that. What I said was

that I am able only to act so long as I am alive. There comes a time when the burden needs to shift. How long do we carry it? I know my health is not good and I have neither the strength or the stamina any longer to shoulder what I used to. In fact, it was the that excessive amount of work which broke my health. Right now, I feel my best efforts are geared toward teaching my adult children how to be active citizens and to teach my grandchildren about how much has changed in my lifetime. They need hear something beyond some of what is sanitized for our school curriculum and text. I teach them critical thinking too. I participate in my community.

As far as economic burden, that is a very real consideration. When the financial burden of caring for someone exceeds the family's capacity to care for its smallest children, then the insistence that you live far beyond your capacity for self-care does become a selfish decision. I will not have my family's resources siphoned off into the nursing home industry nor will I give myself over to be cared for by technology. That is my choice.