Your Own Mortality (2 Viewers)

[saintmdterps]

Even being plenty old
And even with my father passing this year, I’m still not sure I have a proper sense of mortality— it’s kind of like I’m in a boat drifting with the current only vaguely aware that the water will run into land eventually

Maybe it’s working in healthcare through Covid and seeing so many of my patients die, but I’ve become acutely aware of aging.

It may be time to buy that Supra. Damn the torpedoes, Rage, rage against the dying of the light

 

[saintmdterps]

Yeah I was a Catholic school kid from K-8 and never got overly threatened with damnation. I was a good kid (sneaky) and managed to avoid a lot of arsewhippings from the surprisingly powerful nuns (my grandma was in good with them).

Anyway, I’ve “accepted” the fact that I have an expiration date and there’s nothing I can do about it. I honestly can’t tell you how I feel about that - I’m not sure if I’m scared, angry, or just don’t care; it’s weird to think about.
I did tell my wife that if she outlives me, I want one of them Middle Age, old school Viking type deals. Put my sexy naked body on a wooden boat, sail me out, and then have the archer hit me with a burning arrow in the middle of the lake. “He went out in a blaze of glory.”

I want a festival of drunkenness while Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust plays in the background

 

[saintmdterps]

that's interesting - i'm playing a documentary about MLK Jr in Speech class and someone had a Church of the Brethren sign during montgomery bus boycotts

eta: correction - it was the march on DC
that makes more sense

Church of the Brethren is nominally Christian, but bears much resemblance to the Unitarian Universalist church. Both churches can span from a more God-centered approach to something approaching Atheism. Our local UU church has a very Buddhist feel, so I attend that congregation as well

 

[saintmdterps]

Yes, the question is do I want to continue to be a part of the world, if I'm not getting any enjoyment out of it?

What is causing your lack of enjoyment? Please take care of yourself. Your tone worries me

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

What is causing your lack of enjoyment? Please take care of yourself. Your tone worries me

Answered your PM ...

But as my more general question, are there any circumstances when it is "acceptable" to intentionally end one's own life?

 

[saintmdterps]

Answered your PM ...

But as my more general question, are there any circumstances when it is "acceptable" to intentionally end one's own life?

When one is enduring physical pain for which there is no cure, e.g. Jack Kevorkian. Emotional pain has to be decided by the one suffering. However, there are always folks you leave behind.

 

[Nisey55]

I went to Catholic school until 4th grade. It was pretty progressive and was 50/50 lay teachers vs nuns. I really don’t remember being hit figuratively upside the head with eternal damnation

I was literally hit upside the head for rule violations, and I earnt every whuppin I got

Same here, except 10 years of it. We moved and I spent the last 2 years in public school. I thought, finally! No more Catholic school! Oddly, I hated public school and missed my all girls Catholic H.S., that I hated.
But yeah, they didn't like me either.

 

[Nisey55]

Answered your PM ...

But as my more general question, are there any circumstances when it is "acceptable" to intentionally end one's own life?

I don't know your struggles and my 2 cents probably don't mean a thing but you mentioned your nephew who is obviously a light in your darkness, are there other people or things in your life that are a positive?
If you can focus outside of yourself and try not to dwell on suicide, such as the question you asked. If you can see beauty in something maybe you could try to bring more of it into your life.
We are all here too, you talk to us anytime about anything, getting it out helps.
All the peace in the world to you.