[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>First of all, since Justin introduces age below, I'm a couple months
>from my 76th birthday, and come from a family that usually makes it to
>around 84 -- more distressingly sometimes makes it well beyond 84 but
>not in good mental health.
>
>And I think death is no big deal -- or, rather, one's own death is no
>big deal, since the dead don't know they are dead.

Death may be no big deal; it's the prospect of of a long twilight existence 
"not in good mental health" that is terrifying.  My father died of 
Alzheimer's disease, and I cannot imagine a worse end.  Frankly, I think we 
were better off in the era of cigarette smoking, when you had a good chance 
of dropping dead in your tracks from a heart attack.

Carl (56)