Thoughts on Not Dying
L. Neil Smith - why Neil wants to join his wife in dying young.
My wife Cathy startled me the other day by saying, “I want to die young.”
Let’s just say that the lovely and talented mother of my only child is over 50, so at first this seemed like an extremely peculiar thing to say, until I realized what she actually meant by it. She wants to continue feeling young, right up to her final moment. She also says — and this is a big part of it — she wants to leave this mortal coil with lots left to do. I have to admit that the idea is appealing. Let the graduate students try to figure out how I would have finished my last book. Then they’ll die with lots left to do, as well.
Rush Limbaugh says the last check he means to write — just before he slips over the edge of eternity — will be to the IRS, and it will bounce.
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