No way to live

[Error of Logic]

I had a pretty chilling realization today.

When I go about my daily route, I usually have to pass a retirement home that's built around a small church. Now, as a catholic I have no objection to churches, but in this specific case it gave me a small case of the willies. You see, today the bells were sounding to signal a funeral and I had this horrible thought.
All those retired people who have to live here, have to listen every time those funeral bells start to sound. How is that supposed to make people feel? 'Ding dong, here goes another one, you're already standing in line.'
I mean, seriously. These people know they're getting on in years. Putting them near a church where a considerable amount of funerals is conducted every year just seems like adding insult to injury. I thought that retirement home was a nasty place to end up in your 'golden years' before this already, but now it's worse. Next time I see it, I'm going to think of it even more as a dying-hole for the aged.

[Aeridus]

*shudders*

Reminds me of one sci-fi story where science was so advanced they could pinpoint your date of death. One guy starts getting a complimentary magazine called "Preparing For Death" and he can't cancel it, no matter what he does (though it expires in a year when he presumably dies), so he tries to defy nature by changing his health habits and stuff so he can defeat "fate".

Well, he succeeds... the death magazine stops coming on that final day.

On the next day, he starts getting a complimentary magazine called "Welcome to Senility".

[Error of Logic]

That story you described gave me a wicked flashback to an X-Files episode. A cookie to the person who can tell which one I mean.

[Unholy]

That story you described gave me a wicked flashback to an X-Files episode. A cookie to the person who can tell which one I mean.

Wouldnt happen to be the episode titled "synchrony" would it?
"Mulder and Scully investigate a murder for which the suspect presents an incredible alibi — that the death was foretold by an old man able to see into the future"

[Error of Logic]

That story you described gave me a wicked flashback to an X-Files episode. A cookie to the person who can tell which one I mean.

Wouldnt happen to be the episode titled "synchrony" would it?
"Mulder and Scully investigate a murder for which the suspect presents an incredible alibi — that the death was foretold by an old man able to see into the future"

Nope, but good try. *keeps the cookie as yet*

[Halo299]

I thought that retirement home was a nasty place to end up in your 'golden years' before this already, but now it's worse. Next time I see it, I'm going to think of it even more as a dying-hole for the aged.

it's still better then working at Wal-Mart

-halo

[Error of Logic]

I thought that retirement home was a nasty place to end up in your 'golden years' before this already, but now it's worse. Next time I see it, I'm going to think of it even more as a dying-hole for the aged.

it's still better then working at Wal-Mart

-halo

Doubtful. You can quit wal-mart if it's too horrible for you. You can't quit being old. And changing retirement homes is probably difficult, what with a usually fixed income and physical frailty.

[Burntcircuit]

theres a retirement home here in Tulsa, Oklahoma that has a funeral home on one side of it and a graveyard on the other. Its about 51st and memorial if u want to look it up on mapquest or a some other website. i always thought they might as well have a conveyor belt linking the 3

[Error of Logic]

Ghoulish, huh? I suppose the rooms must be cheap, but I doubt many people feel very sanguine about living there.

[Kittyboymuffin]

Meep. Kay, that's just ... evil. Or something.

[Halo299]

Doubtful. You can quit wal-mart if it's too horrible for you. You can't quit being old. And changing retirement homes is probably difficult, what with a usually fixed income and physical frailty.

the most evil of prisons are those with bars that can not be seen.

-halo

[Squidflakes]

Doubtful. You can quit wal-mart if it's too horrible for you. You can't quit being old. And changing retirement homes is probably difficult, what with a usually fixed income and physical frailty.

the most evil of prisons are those with bars that can not be seen.

-halo

Yea, but those are the kinds of prisons they keep people like Magnito in, and the chances of one of us ever being sent there.. slim to none.

[Halo299]

Yea, but those are the kinds of prisons they keep people like Magnito in, and the chances of one of us ever being sent there.. slim to none.

speak for yourself.

I'm not trying to derail this topic or anything and i can see the point about the'rest homes' being sort of like a waiting room for death.

but my point is that there are tons of misserable ways to spend your last days.

for me, where i am in life right now i think sleeping in a coffin every night so they won't have to move me if i go in my sleep would be better then spending my 'golden years' looking at that evil yellow smilie face.

the same things that would keep you in a poor rest home can keep you at a crappy job. no money, poor health, lack or skills.

for me i guess it just seems better to face the fact that my time will soon be at an end and face the piper when he comes in my hospital white, tile floored room one night and tosses me in a box from the next room; then it would be to have some high schooler with parent trouble remind me that i need to get back on the floor from my breaks sooner or i'll have my hours cut (which would mean no more meds for me).

IMHO there are many things in life that are far worse than death. So i feel more comfortable with death.

-halo