Thursday, October 6, 2016

Ramblings of An Elderly Person




One can’t help but ponder on the when and the how once one has reached an age where the Grim Reaper is just round the corner. I’ve been told that I’m morbid when I asked the questions “How long before we kick the bucket?  What will be the manner of our exit?”


Just yesterday I received a message that someone had died in the shower. He must have had a stroke while taking his shower. That was a very sudden and unexpected exit. 

Next came a message telling one how not to begin a shower by pouring water on the head. That could cause a stroke. The right way is to wet yourself from the feet up.

I wonder how many of us senior citizens ponder the question of when and how.  I often do. I also wonder what would happen to my websites, my FB wall and pages and my books on amazon.com
When I’ve exited, how will my online friends know? My children don’t live with me except for one but she’s not familiar with my websites or FB pages. She wouldn’t know what to do with them and the others have no idea of my websites or my books. 

Perhaps they would exist until the hosting expires and the websites sink into oblivion. My online friends would wonder what had happened to me. I guess they would soon realise that I had really disappeared off the face of the earth.

What would happen to my laptops? There is a wealth of information in them and thousands of photographs. Would they know to delete it all before giving them away? 

Perhaps I should begin writing a list of what to do, including the instructions of how to do it, upon my demise, so that one of my children could do the necessary, tidying up after me, closing accounts, announcing my passing online so that my friends will not wonder about my disappearance.

Hmmm, it will be quite a long list!!

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