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[enragedfetus]

What do you tell an old man when he's thirsting for death? Hanging in by a thread, empty of any redemption, hopeless husk man, years of waiting and nothing coming. When nonexistence seems preferable to the alternative, by nearly all accounts but the priest's, what reasons does one provide for preserving the body and cradling the consciousness? Is

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[ipsenaut]

"Enjoy the social security rollbacks!"

[exnil]

You have to accept the flow of things. Life owes you nothing, it's not a contract, it's a gift. Your final and ultimate task is to find that place in your soul where you have real peace, and then wait patiently. Even if it's lost among the pain and despair, and would take thousands of years to find... It's the quest which is important. The door is closing on the material world, but you can still take glimpses through the edges at the world and its beauty. You don't have to take the word of some snot-nosed kid who's barely experienced life and can't know what you've experienced and what you're experiencing now, you are your own person, but what's it worth to completely ignore what I'm trying to say?

Or something like that.

[thejoshu]

You can change everything in your life except the moment you jump.

[the_hummingbird]

Do you think he's thinking this or are you wondering why he's not?

[enragedfetus]

He's told me he's thinking this, and he's been thinking it for years.

[evilweevil]

I would tell him to start small and slowly rebuild. Go on a walk. See something beautiful. Read a book. Plant a garden. Do something new. You know him better than I do of course. I'm sorry that you have to deal with it at all. I hope you're well.