SirSamuel

Does one loose social ties with a catapult? A trebuchet? Are social ties loosed as one would arrows from a bow? Personally I loosen my ties by pulling down on the knot, away from the neck

"'I meant,’ said Iplsore bitterly, ‘what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?’

Death thought about it.

‘CATS,’ he said eventually, ‘CATS ARE NICE'"

-- Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

I thought that weather forecast was either a reminder or advice lol

I appreciate the sentiment in point two. I feel similar when others speak of suicide. In this case I think of this more as death with dignity for the terminally ill. And it's years away, so don't lose sleep over me.

Also, i don't get the pushback you've received for wishing someone will continue to live. It's a weird hill to die on (heh, puns)

Anyway, thanks for the kindness and have a good life

I'm self employed. I enjoy my work. It's very rewarding, but every time i get a little extra money sometime comes along and takes it.

I have no retirement savings. My retirement plan is to kill myself when I'm too sick to work. I've made sure my life insurance is written so that it will pay out to my wife even if I off myself.

I come from a long line of men who don't die easy. I watched my grandfather refuse food or water after being diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer and still live for two weeks. That was after ten years of enduring strike recovery. My dad coughed up a lung from congestive heart failure for over two years before finally wasting away, looking like a pregnant Holocaust survivor. Same for several other uncles and great-uncles. I figure I've got another 25 years before I'm a liability. I'm already physically miserable. Middle age sucks. Old age sucks even harder and I'm not even there yet.

I'm gonna follow one of my great-uncles examples and go for a walk in the woods. I'll make sure whatever SARs volunteer that draws the short straw isn't too traumatized when they find me. Just another old man that chose his own time

Opium Wars II, Electric Boogaloo

Yep!

The verb forms of chat·taʼthʹ (Hebrew) and ha·mar·tiʹa (Koine Greek) literally mean "to miss" in the sense of missing or not reaching a goal, way, mark, or correct point

For me it's a toss up between Night Watch and Reaper Man. Probably NW by a Librarian's hair

How they do rise up

You haven't touched a single boat tho

What is this goddamn UP Michigander bullshit? You count to ten with a six and a four, like any civilized human

More like the Vimes Unified Theory of Adulthood

Another gem from that theory:

"That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp"

High school was only a few hundred million seconds ago