Second Best Way to Go?
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Second Best Way to Go?
Motorcyclist, 92, killed
The family of a veteran of the D-Day landings and Arctic convoys have paid tribute to him after he crashed his motorbike at the age of 92 and died. After the war Donald Wallace became a clergyman in the RAF and was honorary chaplain to the Queen. His daughter, Fiona Tyson, said: “He was a wonderful man, full of adventure.”
The family of a veteran of the D-Day landings and Arctic convoys have paid tribute to him after he crashed his motorbike at the age of 92 and died. After the war Donald Wallace became a clergyman in the RAF and was honorary chaplain to the Queen. His daughter, Fiona Tyson, said: “He was a wonderful man, full of adventure.”
Better that way than slowly running down to zero in a nursing home surrounded by other geriatrics..
We have a friend who's a GP and he has an unfashionable view of how his life should be lived - he takes pleasure in smoking cigars and enjoying wine.
His view - to which I subscribe - is that if you live a parsimonious life with none of the "good things" then you might add 5 years to your lifespan. Unfortunately these 5 years extra don't come in the prime of life where you'd want them - they come at the end where they might not be so welcome. Another 5 years in a geriatric ward? Difficult to argue with..
We have a friend who's a GP and he has an unfashionable view of how his life should be lived - he takes pleasure in smoking cigars and enjoying wine.
His view - to which I subscribe - is that if you live a parsimonious life with none of the "good things" then you might add 5 years to your lifespan. Unfortunately these 5 years extra don't come in the prime of life where you'd want them - they come at the end where they might not be so welcome. Another 5 years in a geriatric ward? Difficult to argue with..
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"I may die young but I'll die happy" as inveterate smokers often say. To which I reply if you've seen someone dying of lung cancer you may revise your definition of dying happy!
As for the rest of it - totally agree. Falling off a cliff you are free climbing, spearing in on finals (but only if you are flying solo) are a couple of good possibilities, as is the old favourite - being shot post coitum by your lover's jealous husband!
As for the rest of it - totally agree. Falling off a cliff you are free climbing, spearing in on finals (but only if you are flying solo) are a couple of good possibilities, as is the old favourite - being shot post coitum by your lover's jealous husband!
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Would this be 'Tunnel Beach' at Episkopi?
Posted to Cyprus in 1960, Wallace, by now an experienced diver, founded a sub-aqua club, created a beach for RAF families by dynamiting a cove and transporting several tonnes of sand over a peninsula.
Agree on the smoking.Spent a very long 10 months nursing my mother through terminal lung cancer.
Although I am a big fan of the red stuff.And the white...and lager.I could go on.
Although I am a big fan of the red stuff.And the white...and lager.I could go on.
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I shall go when I go, by whatever means it happens. I have no intention of reducing my wine or tobacco consumption to drag out a few extra years, when many other factors could influence my lifespan.
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Live Life at full throttle and go out like you were sliding into Home Plate in a big cloud of dust and lots of commotion as if you were the winning Run in the last game of a World Series Series!
I have no intention of reducing my wine or tobacco consumption
The foul pictures on the packets of shag are so offensive . .. if one is posted here . .. I implore the mods to remove it . . instanter.
Danny . .. you hilarious old bugger. ( A joke is a joke . .. . a smoke is a smoke. . . a poke is a poke . .. but to talk about it is fecking ridiculous. .)
p.s. for ORAC - (that bon vivant) - morte magis metuenda senectus. . .old age should rather be feared than death. . .
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I'm not scared of dying, just don't want to be there when it happens. Funny when I checked, Spike Milligan is attributed with the footnote he stole it from Woody Allen.
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"Life`s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely,in a well-preserved body,but rather, to skid in sideways,totally used-up and worn-out,shouting `%$£* man ,what a helluva ride`.."-Anon...