Remember that scene in Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman when the Old Chief decided it was his day to die, so he traipsed out into the plains and lay down, awaiting The Moment. Then it started raining and he had second thoughts...
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > Just remember what DBV says: It’s all in your genes. > > My Mom lived into her mid 80s but the last 3-4 years she was in an > assisted living facility, which is just a fancy name for a nursing home > where you can still pretty much care for yourself. > > She didn’t have dime to her name, but most facilities will take a certain > number of Medicare patients to comply with accreditations, I believe. Mom > was super anti-social as she aged, and went through roommates left and > right. We kept telling her that Medicare wouldn’t pay for a single/private > room, but I’m pretty sure she kept being a PITA to anyone she was paired up > with just to get her own room. After about a year of this they finally > relented and gave her a private room. > > When my brother set her up there he pretty much had to sign over her > Social Security in total to the facility. They took it all for her room > and board and I think she got to keep like $50 of it that went into a sort > of commissary fund so she could buy stuff in their little “store”. > > Mom went in her sleep one night, which was great - we should all go that > way - and other than being a curmudgeon was pretty sharp until the end. > > On a related note, she willed her body to science, more specifically, to > Indiana University’s School of Medicine. She had made the arrangements > years ago, and was very clear that this was what she wanted. The claimed > her body before any of us could see her and that was it. They don’t tell > you what they do with the remains, but when they’re done with them they > cremate them and then either return the “cremains” to the family or bury > them in a common crypt in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. > > It’s a really cool thing that they do - once a year they have a > non-denominational memorial service for all the families of the donors on > campus that is mandatory for all first year medical students to attend. > Then they take the cremains to Crown Hill and inter them in an area set > aside for those who have donated their bodies to science and hold a > graveside ceremony as well. really nice way to memorialize these folks and > honor the families as well. > > And personally, I like the Inuit thing - when you get old they put you on > an ice floe and let you drift away... > > -D > > > > > On Mar 1, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well my grandmother was healthy as a horse and would still be out push > mowing and weed eating her yard into her early 80's. Her mind was still > slipping at that point though and the last couple of years she could not > remember to eat, take meds and such. She died in 03. Now my grandfather who > died many years before her in 91 was a WW2 Seabee and had emphysema from > the 2 packs of non filtered camels a day but boy he was sharp as a tack > until the day he died. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
