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My uncle (dad's younger brother) suffered a cancer relapse last year that didn't respond to treatment and died. He seemed on the road to recovery, but it suddenly got worse and he never really recovered. He was optimistic up until his last moments, even though he was in terrible pain. It hit the entire family hard, because in general we tend to live long lives and he didn't even make it to his old age. Broke me up something fierce too because I loved him a great deal and he was always good to me and the other kids in the household. Almost couldn't bear to be in the same room as his corpse during the funeral, and could barely eat or sleep for several days. Sometimes life isn't fair, but at least he was able to live a good life while he could for as long as he did and he managed to get his children settled in life.
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Darth Brooks posted:I know this is a completely different vibe from the thread but the longer I live the more I believe that people would be happy living longer lives. We just figure out our crap and get to a point where we've paid stuff off and then we get sick and die. The trope of someone with immortal life getting bored doesn't work if you think about because every day has something new. If you had been born in 1820 you would have seen fast transportation go from horses to railroads to cars to airplanes to jets. Communication went from mail to telegrams to phones to now when you can chat face to face with someone on the other side of the globe without thinking it was anything abnormal. What's next? There's way too much stuff to see and do in the world to be worried about being jaded or bored, just in terms of literature or TV.
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