Are you dead?

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<p><a href=“http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/fashion/Sex-Was-It-Fatal-for-You-Darling.html?from=style”>http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/fashion/Sex-Was-It-Fatal-for-You-Darling.html?from=style&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I find this amusing and not amusing at the same time. :)</p>

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<p>Ha! What a hoot. :)</p>

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<p>Joyce Wadler’s columns are hysterical for those of us of a certain age, especially if we are single.</p>

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<p>Too funny! Have another 15 years before I need to start wording about this issue but nice to know whats on the horizon.</p>

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<p>Oh my I have tears in my eyes…not sure if it’s because the whole thing is so tragic…or so funny…let’s go with tragically funny. </p>

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<p>Well, it’s reality, that’s for sure. </p>

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<p>I actually had a client who called 911 when her partner had a “spell”. It is scary.</p>

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<p>Thank you. I’m so accustomed to getting linked to “funny” articles about cats or babies that this was a welcome relief. And at 51, now taking a pressor and a statin, it hits home just a little.</p>

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<p>Oh good God. Not there yet, but this is what I have to look forward to – currently married, but still a concern. Old age issues. So many of them.</p>

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<p>A few years ago the husband of a dear friend died in bed.
He wasn’t even that old,(60).
It makes you think.</p>

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<pre><code> Funny but Scary. So many things to think about as we age that we never gave a thought to twenty years ago.
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<p>Do I laugh or cry?<br>
Thanks for sharing that article. I’m going to show it to my DH for a shared chuckle.</p>

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<p>DH’s Uncle died that way, though it’s probably TMI that I know that. I guess when it happens to you, you have to tell someone and who can resist passing that story around the family!?</p>

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<p>Seems like a good way to go, for the deceased–not so much for the survivor and the trauma she would likely suffer (especially if partner is very heavy and difficult to get off). Seems very preferable to being hooked to tons of wires and tubes and losing one piece of yourself after another.</p>

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<p>^ yes, glad you wrote it Himom. Not a bad death imho - Having your spouse die in bed, during sleep or otherwise seems preferable to me than waiting for the morphine to finally take your partner. However, when it’s someone you aren’t that close to the situation becomes quite different!</p>

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<p>IF it was someone I wasn’t that close to, we wouldn’t be in bed together, so I can’t envision this particular issue. Yes, can certainly see how it would be “sticky” if it was a more casual relationship. H and I would definitely like to die in our own beds while we sleep someday instead of when our minds have gone elsewhere, never to return and our bodies become more and more enfeebled and pain-wracked.</p>

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<p>Oh how funny!!! LOL!</p>

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<p>Very funny!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the laugh, it is all too true</p>

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<p>Funny. And scary. </p>