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- hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -3/+143@xsuite
When is the last time you have been a 93 year old man on the verge of death? It must be one of the most depressing thoughts one is capable of thinking, when he knows he is going to die. Acting brave is just a waste of energy.
In any case, this man still has his wits about him. I can only hope that I will be as mentally present as he is when I am up in age. - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -4/+129@xsuite: I bet that's pretty easy to say that when you're 30 years old sitting in your mother's basement.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+122Wow, I couldn't pass up digging this.
This guy obviously knows more about computers than most people I know (of any age) and the stuff he writes is pretty brutally honest, yet inspirational. - cameron074, on 10/12/2007, -2/+73"Life is short"
and hard, like a body building elf. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49Blog spam! (just kidding)
I've always wanted to hear someone really talk about how things are when you hit the 80s and 90s, but not in a "now listen here, sonny" kind of way - Donald's blog makes me feel like he's really talking like one of my peers. This really made my morning. I don't throw around the word 'inspirational' much, but this deserves it.
His writing is the kind of thing I'll be keeping on my bathroom mirror, to make sure I have some perspective every morning. - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49and random, like a body building elf holding a box of chocolates.
- decruncher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45More on Don
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Crowdis - LFAB, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4993 year old Canadian--What's that like 150 in American years?
- coldfirenj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36Life is short.
- LFAB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33In my yard, please. The gate's unlocked.
- DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36If you have to find Jesus does that mean he's hiding?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Give the Jesus stuff a rest. If a 93 year old man wanted to find Jesus he would have by now.
- djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27"wouldn't u rather be safe than sorry"
I'd rather you just shut the ***** up. - jackdirt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Quite bittersweet
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26@hbweb500
I've worked at assisted living communities, and I've seen many 90+ year old people die. Many of them are very scared, many of them are not. Death does not have to mean misery and sadness. It can be accepted as simply something inevitable that is not worth fretting over. It's amazing to see someone who knows when they are going to die still appreciate the life they had, and not be scared, but be appreciative of what they had, and of what they can still do until they pass.
I feel pity that this man may not reach a level of acceptance and happiness before he dies.
Being brave enough to still be happy would never be a waste of energy. - controlguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Precisely what I thought about this sentence of the blog: "...if you think yourself into my age, fill out the list. At least you can try to understand why I say that I hate to go." Frankly, I think it's the most important lesson of the blog.
Imagine being 93 years old, looking back, and wishing you could relive your youth. I think it's a good way to truly appreciate what you have now in your life -- life, energy, attractiveness, and decades of time. It's not an excuse to throw responsibility out the window, but it will hopefully let you live with fewer regrets later on. - yano, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Just think about how much he has seen society change?
He was born right before WW1, grew during the great depression, and WW2. Saw us go to the moon, using a computer with 1/10 the power of the first desktop computers in the 90s. He saw Vietnam, Korean, the 60s-80s music revolution, unity between races in America. India become a free country in the 40s. Just think about how much he has seen the world change... It is amazing, I wish I could have the oppurtunity to live through the last century. (It'll probably be better than this coming century; with the threat of nuclear war, the "war on terror," total lost of privacy by 2050... - BlinderBomber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19"Better safe than sorry"?
Isn't god supposed to be omniscient? Wouldn't he know if you were 'hedging your bets' by believing in him? It seems to me the only way you would achieve salvation is if you truly believed, not if you just did it because of Pascal's Wager. - combustion8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I think I may go plant a tree.
- gr8whitesavage, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Death is the last great adventure.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14His writing gives the impression he is still young at heart.
- quaffapint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I want to that the poster for providing this - what a fantastic story - here's a Digg story I truly appreciate for what it is...
- eschompthis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13religion is about faith not "rather be safe than sorry" dumbass
- barryiggins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12yeah, I read this post earlier today, and it kinda struck me: I've always had this assumption that the older you get, somehow you become more understanding of the transient nature of life, to detach from it with grace, etc.; but this guy honestly admits: it never gets easy.
In any case, he seems to still have more life in him than a lot us supposedly in the prime years of living. - Azriel7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"...The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
-Robert Frost - DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Don, I hope you know this man is blowing ***** from his ass.
- CadMasterAdam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11wow he was just a little squirt at the time of the Halifax explosion. his blog is very interesting. Its nice to get a glimps of life through the eyes of someone who makes just about everyone on the net looke like kids.
- cjnkns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's nice to be reminded how short life is; and that I need to do more with the time I have here.
Thanks Don! - Trumane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Old age is the cruelest thing ever proffered on humankind.
- ezikiel2517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Now I have an unsettling mixsture of emotions.
- garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I didn't know he owned Google's servers.
- jpjandrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I can see myself in both situations: waiting anxiously or at least conformed for death and not wanting it to come anyway.
@xsuite and anyone who thinks it's stupid to fear death:
it's easy to say when you're near 20 or near 30 and death is incredibly distant.
The pure thought of not existing anymore is absurd. That's why religious people see death better than non-religion. Have you ever considered the possibility of not existing anymore?
Our culture is not prepared for death. Medics are only taught about life, not about death. That's why they try to keep patients alive at all costs, even when they would rather die if they had the choice.
So stop judging other people, specially in this subject, and specially if you're at least 50/60 years younger than him. - espek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10You mean Foxconn?
- GoingToShibuya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"We did not evolve from apes or some big explosion, we came from God..deep inside yourself, you know that it's true. God Bless You."
Try to stay on the subject, idiot. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I don't mind sleeping, so I figure I wouldn't mind death either.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In the light of life extension research being performed lately and the philosophical questions that such researches raised, this man is a living example of how wrong are the people saying that anything more than 80 are too much. Our minds have grown too big, and our lives seem/got very small to us, if anything the life extension research would do a lot more good than harm to humankind.
I challenge those who said or believe that -even if science enables us to live 120 years with relative ease- 70-80 years would be more than enough for them, having in mind what this man says and feels, to rationalize their position. - RalphDibny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i don't think you are forcing anyone to swallow anything. But using fear as a tool like that is no way to instill faith in anyone.
I mean if i was Jesus and someone believed in me for the sake of "playing it safe" i certainly wouldn't let them into my party upstairs... - solvable, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You're exactly right. We don't have to swallow anything.
That's why you're getting dugg down, We refuse to swallow. - hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@spidoman
Certainly. People deal with death differently. Just because one dies in fear doesn't mean they die anymore cowardly than others. In fact, through my readings in psychology if read that humans have a "rest impulse," a certain desire to return to peace, and they do this through death. The human mind is a strange, complex, and beautiful thing, and it is odd how people come to terms or do no come to terms with their imminent deaths. - covertbadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Look around you and look at how everything in the universe is created so that life can be maintained on earth."
Is that why the vast, vast, vast majority of the universe is unimaginably hostile and fatal to every form of life we've ever idenitfied? You're an idiot. - 60days, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Zeus is merely expressing his displeasure with you via electronic messages. Return to the heart of Olympus and you will be shown mercy.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It occurs to me that if you really want to 'save' this guy, you'd tell it to him, not us digggers.
Unless of course you're praying, in which case, do it in your head.
"wouldn't u rather be safe than sorry", there is everything wrong with that.
For a laugh, I'll take the statistical view : In the history of mankind, what percentage have accepted Jesus and been 'saved'?
Not much.
Chances are, Christianity is the wrong religion (in another few thousand years I'm sure there'll be a new one), and praying to the wrong god will just make him/them angrier.
Assuming of course that they exist, despite any kind of logic or probability. - DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What else do we have? Passing on a legacy to be remembered is the last bit of ourselves we can leave, a story to inspire others.
Once you pass on there really isn't anything else other than death. - hobgobbler, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9He might change his mind when he gets his next server bill.
- Azriel7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Do I want to live forever? Let me live a few thousand years and then ask me.
- rdoger6424, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nitpickery: The apollo's computer had a 43 kHz processor, and the 486 (coming out in 1989) had (depending on the model) a 25-100 MHz Processor, meaning that the 486 was at least 500x faster than the apollo.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4First of all, you quoted yourself. Secondly, the only thing "little ole you" is evoking is an abnormally large blip on my idiot radar.
- vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Cause life is a game that no one wins,
But you deserve a headstart the way your life's goin' - foebea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I really like the thought, but it seems to have all the makings of a pyramid scam. I would hate to give out a few weeks only to find later on there was no one lining up to give me extra time. I think I will keep my days and try to remember to make the most of them.
- SydneyBristow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5When I read the title, I thought the article would be about a 93 year old blogger having incontinence problems. But this works too!
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