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End of Life Issues

angstlessk

(11,862 posts) Thu Mar 31, 2016, 09:24 PM Mar 2016

I was not dying, but I thought I was...This is how I placated my fear [View all]

I thought how ants and bees easily give their lives for their nest mates

because of the genetics...and that it is genes that matter not the body.

I thought about how I was the result of every ancestor who did not die before they gave birth, for millennia...how lucky was I to even exist? And my genes will live on, through my son, my parents, their brothers, sisters and all their children.

That somehow gave me peace.

We do live on..in our genes.

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I was not dying, but I thought I was...This is how I placated my fear [View all] angstlessk Mar 2016 OP

I think you're right, and I had not thought of it this way before. CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2016 #1

Yes it is true...the father, mother, cousins, uncles, aunts angstlessk Mar 2016 #2

I believe I've read that siblings are the closest genetically to one another. No Vested Interest Apr 2016 #3

I too have had sharp pains on the left of my chest angstlessk Apr 2016 #4

I do believe a reason to live makes living more tenable angstlessk Apr 2016 #5