Isn’t it only a matter of time from birth until we get the news that we either have cancer, heart disease or else die of a freak accident? (for the most part, I know there are other things as well)
Should we keep this in mind to prepare for the inevitable so we don’t take the news so hard when it happens?
http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/
http://www.rush.edu/rumc/page-1098994230228.html?gclid=CLev9fmW758CFZdM5QodhglBdQ
You are a thinking person. A thinking person realizes that humans are not immortal.
Of course something happens to each of us eventually.
It has been predicted that all people will develop a malignancy if they live long enough.
This is why I think religions has always been popular with humans.
Religions that promise eternal life – Egyptian, Christian, Muslim – have always attracted people.
Good luck with that mental preparation thing.
Sure, if we live long enough, we’ll likely develop a chronic illness.
Sometimes, it’s an acute or undiagnosed condition that gets us. The massive coronary or stroke. You’d have to avoid doctor visits for many years to live with some undiagnosed heart/vascular disease these days.
Well yes we are all going to die, and likely from those illnesses, but while you’re still healthy you should be thinking about pleasant things, instead of thinking about preparing to get the news that you have cancer, why not think about fields with flowers, and puppies and kittens, and bluebell woods.
Cross the bridge when you come to it
Perhaps we better become educated, disciplined to value our health and protect it. Do all we need to do instead ever prepared for the bad news while we neglect to keep being informed and active.
Actually some people can have a nasty surprise who still visit doctors often enough pro-actively. Some doctors are lazy, (I notice how rushed they take blood pressures and incorrectly, the literature also refer to this), don’t even listen to patients story close enough while watching their monitor screen, then ask an odd question they did not hear the patient said just before…not up to date with their professional education, dogmatic, arrogant and ignorant. I encountered specimens like that and decided to hire my present doctor for my best interest and have a dialogue with him. I found many more when I advocate or interpret to those needing it. I rescue some patients taking them to my doctor. Not that the odd patient won’t resent this, tells me off and stick with his unsafe doctor!
As to religion humankind stuck in it still,- children have bedtime stories. Infantilized adults have religion. Atheists have freedom, still have their spirituality and ethics and make sure the god they create is a good one, not like the ones still ruling the minds of the men of faith, these gods are vicious, combative and enslaving. Dangerous, toxic myths extract a toll!
Be well! joseph.