Death is on the way! Nobody gets out of here alive!

[hfojvt]

Or something like that. Would you rather have advance warning, or have it be sudden and unexpected.

Myself, I would like to have at least a year's warning. For example, if I was gonna die in a year, and knew that, I could quit my job, which I kinda hate, and spend my retirement money, etc., as well as have plenty of time to say my last good-byes.

Last week, it was my 10 year old dog that died, and I sorta had almost two weeks notice, from Monday when the vet told me her kidneys were failing and the following Saturday when she died. I lost 3 of those days by giving her IV treatment in the attempt to extend her life by a few months. Kinda sucked, but she was kinda old, and I had more time. Compared to when her son died last year. He was fine, as far as I knew, Wednesday night, very sick Thursday morning, and put down on Friday afternoon, and he was only 7. :argh:

Now, it is my nine year old monitor that they tell me is dying. The picture, especially if it, or the table, is bumped, scrunches in temporarily. Tomorrow I will get a new one, hopefully of a similar type because I am not that sure about getting it to work on my computer. Can I just get any monitor and plug it in. When I first got this computer it did not work with this monitor even though both computers were compaqs. The computer store told me to change the configuration on the computer somehow, and I had to tell them 'it's kinda hard to do anything on this computer when I don't have a monitor to see what I am clicking on'.

As a side note, I kind of amazed my roommate back in graduate school when the monitor went out on a school computer. I still could boot it up, type in a batch file and run it and then open a file and print without the use of a monitor. You can do that in DOS with a keyboard. It's alot harder with a mouse in windows afaik.

Anyway, does anybody know what I can expect? How long do I have with my current monitor? Hours? Days? Months? How will the end finally come? With a bang? Or a whimper? Can I configure my new monitor and still use the old one? Can anything be salvaged on the old one? Is there some good way to recycle it? Yeah, I will probably be asking these questions at Radio Shack tomorrow.

Finally :scared: :scared: Hold me. :grouphug:

[Redstone]

1. Sorry about your dog; it's always hard when you lose a pooch. As to the monitor,

I don't use Windows computers, but as far as I know, any monitor should work.

Redstone

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear hjovt...

I'd rather have some warning so I could say my goodbyes...

I'd want to get my affairs in order, too...

You know, the last time for dinner at a special place...

Make sure my will is all set up...

Say goodbye to the special folks in my life...

I want warning, damn it!

:hi:

[hfojvt]

5. I also think it would help in the bad times

I look at somebody like Josiah Grant who was born in 1682 and died in 1762. Suppose he was really sick or going through some other bad time in 1740 and he was wondering 'am I gonna make it?' Wouldn't it be nice to know 'Yes, you are gonna make it'?

Probably knowing the exact date would lose its appeal as the day got closer. I enjoy today more with the possibly mistake belief that I am not gonna die tomorrow. Maybe it would be nicer just to know the year, at least until December. Most people would probably still have the optimism that 'the prediction could be wrong'.

[TOhioLiberal]

3. When I go...

...I want it to be quick and as painless as possible. If only I could wish that for other people. :cry:

[hfojvt]

6. I think a little pain would be okay

If it gave me a few weeks. They have better pain meds now than morphine.

Pain does not bother me as much as Alzheimer's loss of faculties or vegetative states.

[Wapsie B]

4. Having advance warning would have its advantages.

such as those you pointed out. Quitting the job and just seeing as much of the world as I can would be the way to go. Or maybe that's an indication of the way I should be living life right now.

As for your monitor I have no idea. Then end for that and your old computer could come at any time.

[hfojvt]

8. do the things you always wanted to do

I have seen much of the world that I wanted to see, but I had pretty simple goals anyway. You kinda can't live that way now. At least I do not think it is prudent, because of the need to save for retirement. But I think it is a good idea too, to remember that neither our time here nor that of our loved ones is infinite.

[BarenakedLady]

7. I'm sorry

No answers for you, but I'm sorry for your losses.

:hug: