Midge is ready to leave this world

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Midge is ready to leave this world

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I am now getting close to being 92. And I might sort of use a Testimony meeting in my Ward to wave to all the new people in my Ward, since most of my old friends have already moved to a new and better place. None of my childhood friends are still alive, nor those I met and befriended at the University of Utah, nor those in my graduate school experience at Brown University, nor are any of my missionary companions, including especially my dear beautiful wife still alive. So I am ready leave this world,, even though I still have some essays I would like to publish.
I love to travel. But I now need adults around to make sure I do not take a tumble.
I am, however, pleased that there are some very bright younger people now able to take the place of the few of us who back a few years ago sought to defend the faith of all the Saints everywhere.
I’m not one to argue with him.
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He's attention seeking.
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Ah...it'd be a weird and sad feeling to be older than everyone, knowing your time is coming to an end. I feel sympathetic.
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drumdude wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:03 am

I am, however, pleased that there are some very bright younger people now able to take the place of the few of us who back a few years ago sought to defend the faith of all the Saints everywhere.
I’m not one to argue with him.
Stephen or Kwaku?
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Cardon!
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dastardly stem wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:38 pm
Ah...it'd be a weird and sad feeling to be older than everyone, knowing your time is coming to an end. I feel sympathetic.
Every time I hear something like this I think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbhnVhVq3MY clip. I am not quite there yet but feel grateful for everyday. I have lived a good life. For those that hate clips.
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ah I feel great for 85 you know the
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average lifespan for an American male is
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like 72 you're really kind of pushing
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the envelope there I'm not afraid to die
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I never think about it you don't well I
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think about it a lot I think about it at
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my age imagine how much I'll be thinking
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about it at your age well I'll do is
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just keep thinking about it then it
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drives me insane
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I'm grateful for every moment I have
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grateful how can you be grateful when
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you're so close to the end when you know
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that any second poof bammo it can all be
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over I mean you're not stupid you can
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read the handwriting on the wall it's a
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matter of simple arithmetic for God's
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sake I guess I just don't care what are
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you talking about sit there and look me
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in the eye and tell me that you're not
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worried don't you have any sense I've
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got a brain are you so completely senile
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where are you going life's too short to
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waste on you yeah mr. Kent well you you
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owe me for the soup
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Because this poem lays out the way I hope to go, this is what I'd hope for Dr Midgley:

Let Me Die A Youngman's Death
by Roger McGough

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death
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dastardly stem wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:38 pm
Ah...it'd be a weird and sad feeling to be older than everyone, knowing your time is coming to an end. I feel sympathetic.
I agree DS.
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I am happy he shared that with us all. Age humbles us, reminds us of our mortality. And, I think that we should all have human sympathy for those who have reached such an advanced age and are experiencing the world as he is, robbed of the love and support of most of his intimate friends, family, and peers. In a sane and compassionate world, we would not make fun of him or gloat about his plight, we would respect him as an elder voice with a perspective many of us may never have.
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Kishkumen wrote:
Wed Oct 05, 2022 9:57 pm
In a sane and compassionate world, we would not make fun of him or gloat about his plight, we would respect him as an elder voice with a perspective many of us may never have.
In a sane world, I hope that nobody would respect a 92 year old man who travels halfway around the world to stalk a female scholar. Pity maybe, but never respect.
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