It's sad to kill animals.
Funny thing though, most animals kill something living in order to continue living themselves.
One of the mysteries of life I'm afraid.

Many people actually kill themselves. They finally conclude, life is a total negative existence, and viewed from certain angles it is.
If you were a fox for example, and had your leg caught in a steel trap, you may chew off your leg in order to escape.
That experience may actually be a positive one, viewed from a certain angle.
Failing to chew off your leg as the fox did, would more certainly result in death.
Better to live with three legs than to die with four, said the wily old fox!

Compromise is always fraught with difficulties.

Dan not sure I want to talk about the death bit
only because past things prove it takes little for some to want to end it
But the thread has got me remembering
At some time everyone is in such a spot, my way out is never give up, so compromise is well used by me
It is the best way around brick walls
Nothing is ever perfect, life is a compromise

Dear Dan,

«Many people actually kill themselves. They finally conclude, life is a total negative existence, and viewed from certain angles it is.»

Many TRY to kill themselves, but nobody succeeds.

Life cannot be rid of that easily: all they can do is to chop off their body, but still desiring to have better, happier lives, they shortly after come back in another body that has even worse circumstances than the one they killed.

Yes, misery can be ended, but for that one has to truly renounce all their desires, not just destroy the vehicle through which they try to fulfil those desires.

You didn't specify the exact circumstances of the fox caught in the steel trap: if they still have duties outside that trap, such as feeding their cubs, and would still be able to perform these duties even on three legs, then it is right for them to chew their leg. However, an old fox with no cubs should thank the man who set the trap. Once killed they could next live as a human instead.

My wife and I have discussed our deaths. We are looking for someone who will provide transportation for a corpse to a place of burial or cremation cheaply. No service of any kind. If burial a cheap coffin. The survivor will organise a wake for the deceased. I am making a tape to be played at my wake. It will conclude with Louis Armstrong playing "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal, you." There is no evidence to substantiate a belief in reincarnation or an afterlife. Death is the end of life. That's all, folks.

Once you have completed your bucket list, there is not much point cluttering up the place, unless you are needed by someone who needs help.

It is now about 5 years since I drove on a race track, 15 years since I went sailing or canoeing, & about as long since I rode a horse. Hell I don't even drive my 2 old classic sports cars very often.

My son told me I should use them as my daily drivers, & to hell with the shopping trolley bumps & scratches. I built them out of a couple of cheap wrecks early in my retirement, & love them perhaps a bit too much because of that. Something like loving your offspring I guess. As he said, it is no use having a couple of gleaming classics sitting in the shed, as they push you into the oven at the crematorium.

Anyway, when the pain becomes too much, it will be see you later from me.

Hi,
Nan seen what I put in and said type better, so I will put in the capitals. been to camp wow great time.

Why are you guys so down, I hope you are not sick, Nan is old but thinks young, says make your life a box of birds, take time and make every day count. If you still have your whanau and friends, good health, enjoying the love your children and mokos give you then that is all you need, they will look after you when you are old. Dont kill animals is a good rule, I stopped eating meat so I feel much better.