Gone July 21, 2006
Posted by Spiralskies in : Journal , trackback“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.”
Joan Baez
I wonder what I would do if I could choose how to spend my last few hours? What would any of us choose?
Grab a cab and head to the wilds of the Jersey coast, feel the sea breeze in your hair… a sandwich and bottle of wine at a beach bar alone… drink, chill, watch the surfers, feel the spray on your skin as the tide races in… no worries, no fears, no plan, no pain… collected hours later as arranged before the sun sets…
Just a short while after she spent three hours doing what she loved best, her home help found she had peacefully died in her wheelchair, the sea salt still in her hair…
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