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[manicraven]

50. I like your plan! I've been giving a lot of thought as I'm aging to how I want to go out...

There's no way I want to be in a nursing home or even at the mercy of my adult children who don't need to be burdened by me. They have enough on their plates and their own children. I also watched my fiercely independent grandfather live on his own until he was 96 and then died in his home (he did have hospice for the last few days), but quite honestly, he was painfully lonely and had many struggles, including failing eye sight and hearing that hampered his efforts greatly to be on his own. Somehow he managed even to cook for himself (utilized items to help the blind), but I also don't feel too keen to be that alone and to have outlived my spouse, first-born child, all friends, four out of five siblings... Still, his mind was sharp and there was no deficit there, but he was extremely lonely and visiting him was just a drop in the bucket and it was terribly hard to leave him, but he'd have it no other way. I think he made the most of life always, but I look at overall quality of life, not just quantity of life, and that's just too much struggle and loneliness for me personally.