What happens if you die alone??

[Innocynioc]

I remember a story from years back, about an old lady that died in her arm chair in front of the TV. They found her many years later- a mummy and the TV was still on.

What brand was the TV?

 

[Mr Natural]

How can you be reborn if you are cremated !!
It’s so final

Being reborn is just a bunch of wishful thinking.

When you’re dead, you’re dead.

 

[Woodznutz]

Let’s say you live alone , have no friends and don’t work and you just drop dead


Is this a rarity that nobody could ever find you and you just decompose for several months

It’s a scary predicament, yes

This happened to a tenant of mine, and sadly to my ex-wife. Not a pleasant experience. Cause of death of both could not be determined as they were 'too far gone'.

 

[odanny]

Being reborn is just a bunch of wishful thinking.

When you’re dead, you’re dead.

Yea, who knows what happens when you die, does your spirit live on? What a ridiculous thing to worry about when you are alive. I would not even try and guess what happens in our next phase, but something probably happens.

March 2023, I know a couple, and they had a son with pretty bad autism and you couldn't converse with him, he was a big kid, around 24 or 25 yrs old, but looked and acted fairly normal otherwise. One night he died in his sleep, unexpectedly in a hospital (of renal failure).

A few days after his death I was out for a morning walk, having just retired a month ago, and I saw Owen while walking. It was not someone who looked like him, it was actually him. He was dressed the same as always, and walked the same. How weird is that? I knew I could not speak with him, and the thought of taking his picture without permission immediately gave me a bad feeling. I was freaked out for a while over that.

So who knows what happens to us when we die, our spirit might remain on earth for a while.

 

[Zincwarrior]

The dogs will eat you.

My poodle has promised to make a bag of crisps from my butt and belly.

 

[deannalw]

THAT is a fantasy....
It really doesn't happen very often.

Usually most old people are sick, get slowly sicker, and eventually die.

Those they once knew are also old and frail if still alive. They can't come to visit....it will be a miracle if they can make it to a funeral other than their own. (If a service is even held for them because so few who are still alive care)

I disagree 100%. That hasn't been my experience at all. Just because the elderly grow sicker and more frail, doesn't mean they do it alone. They still have family and friends, and younger members in their family as well. When my mom became too old to live on her own, I put her with me at our house and when the time came, she had a lot of family surrounding her. No one in this family is gonna die alone.

 

[deannalw]

What brand was the TV?

Quasar, of course.

 

[JohnDB]

I disagree 100%. That hasn't been my experience at all. Just because the elderly grow sicker and more frail, doesn't mean they do it alone. They still have family and friends, and younger members in their family as well. When my mom became too old to live on her own, I put her with me at our house and when the time came, she had a lot of family surrounding her. No one in this family is gonna die alone.

Yes, that's the ideal. I've done similar with my father after my mother passed away. However, we are not the norm anymore. Things have changed drastically in the world around us.

Dying surrounded by family and friends is the ideal. But for MANY its a fantasy that won't happen.

When they get really old they become alone and have limited or estranged family.

Which is why I personally believe that relationships are some of the most important things you make in this world. But people today do not seem to value friendships as they once did.

 

[deannalw]

Yes, that's the ideal. I've done similar with my father after my mother passed away. However, we are not the norm anymore. Things have changed drastically in the world around us.

Dying surrounded by family and friends is the ideal. But for MANY its a fantasy that won't happen.

When they get really old they become alone and have limited or estranged family.

Which is why I personally believe that relationships are some of the most important things you make in this world. But people today do not seem to value friendships as they once did.

I've worked in nursing homes and convalescent homes- there are some situations in those that can break your heart. It's true- our society has changed. It's morphed into something our ancestors wouldn't agree with or even understand. Hell, I don't understand it. I'm a throwback that believes family sticks together and does everything it can to be there for one another. I would have sawed my right arm off before putting my mom in any kind of home.

 

[JohnDB]

I've worked in nursing homes and convalescent homes- there are some situations in those that can break your heart. It's true- our society has changed. It's morphed into something our ancestors wouldn't agree with or even understand. Hell, I don't understand it. I'm a throwback that believes family sticks together and does everything it can to be there for one another. I would have sawed my right arm off before putting my mom in any kind of home.

So the real question becomes....

Tares in the wheat field or wheat in the tare field?

I know I don't know....but failure on someone else's part does not mean that I have to change my attitudes or behaviors. I create my own community I determine how I react to my community.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I've worked in nursing homes and convalescent homes- there are some situations in those that can break your heart. It's true- our society has changed. It's morphed into something our ancestors wouldn't agree with or even understand. Hell, I don't understand it. I'm a throwback that believes family sticks together and does everything it can to be there for one another. I would have sawed my right arm off before putting my mom in any kind of home.

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I always feared that, if I'd had children, that would be the situation I'd be in as I aged. I realized that keeping children out of the clutches of this evil culture is nearly impossible.

I watched the way that leftist culture isolated my husband from his children toward the end of his life, as well.

I thank God all the time that I at least get to live in the church culture I live in -- some very faithful people and I get to spend Saturday Mass with so many of them and their faithful families. The back two pews are always filled with four generations of one family, and they have welcomed me.

God bless them.


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