At 08:13 PM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
My father passed away after fighting emphysema for about 7 years. It was a
mercy because he was bright and alert right up until the end. He just was
slowly drowning because of 45-50 years of smoking. Every time I see someone
light up I want to beat them! It's not that the death is so bad - it's the
dying. Way too often it is long and agonizing for everyone involved!
Wanda
I agree with you Wanda.
My husband wants to have a commercial of a young person lighting up, saying
"it's my choice, if I die, it will only affect me." Then show that person
grow older, and how as they go through life; falling in love, getting
married, having kids, then young grandkids. A progression until they die
relatively early in life of cancer or other smoking related illness and
show the grief of those they leave behind. The idea is to show how smoking
affects their whole family, not just their personal bodies.
I know we all die sometime of something. But I know in my Mom's case, she
was in excellent health otherwise. No history of anything, ate right,
exercised, everything good she could do, except she smoked from the age of
16 till she died a couple of months past her 73rd birthday, with only a few
years where she had quit. She was given smokes from an American military
man sometime after the bombing in Japan. As a Japanese woman, she had a
life expectancy of her 80s or higher. She left knowing she wouldn't see her
the grand daughter she had waited her whole life to hold. But thankfully,
she is no longer in the intense pain she had from the cancer, which had
spread to her bones in her spine and beyond.
Kimiko
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