Comments on: The Tail End https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gareth Rhys Collins https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-382066 Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:16:37 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-382066 In reply to Horatio Eastwood.

I wonder then, in that case, what would occupy our thoughts the way that death does to us now.

]]> By: jenny https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-379376 Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:08:21 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-379376 My mom has dementia. She's the last of the 4 of us in my nuclear family. It can be mentally exhausting after a long day at work to go see her 4x a week. If i see her 3x a week for the next 10 years (she's 80), I have 1440 more times to visit with her, if she lives 10 more years. She may not remember me each time I go, but I will focus on this when I go and know that I will remember visiting her, even if she doesn't remember me.

]]> By: Das https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-378445 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:54:17 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-378445 In reply to Paulius Vendelis.

same here

]]> By: Joel https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-377163 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:41:10 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-377163 Can I buy the time with parents image as a poster?

]]> By: Horatio Eastwood https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-374799 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:23:38 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-374799 LIFE SHOULD BE OTHERWISE
You should start by dying and then that trauma is overcome.
Then you wake up in a nursing home improving day by day.
Then they kick you out of the residence because you are fine and the first thing you do is collect your pension.
Then on your first day of work they give you a gold watch.
You work for 40 years until you are young enough to enjoy retirement from working life.
So you go from party to party, you drink, you have sex and then you start school, playing with your friends, without any kind of obligation, until you are a baby, and the last 9 months you spend the last 9 months floating peacefully, with central heating, room service , etc…
And in the end you leave this world in an … [explosion]
(attributed to Sean Morey)

]]> By: Paulius Vendelis https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-352939 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:51:40 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-352939 HI guys, now im 29, ill try my best to live to 90 and get back to this comment and write down how it went xD

]]> By: Autumnnn https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-347879 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:18:34 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-347879 You’re a beautiful human being for showing me this…
Even though I only found it today and it’s already been 8 years almost; I hope you’re in good health Tim. Thank you~

]]> By: Ozoda https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-347637 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:24:12 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-347637 I learnt a lot of things from that article.thankyou so much for that. We don’t have to forget about the reality that we are in the tail end. We appreciate our life . Everything that we consider valuable is gift for us.

]]> By: Ozoda https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-347636 Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:22:07 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-347636 I learnt a lot of things from that article thankyou so much for this. We don’t have to forget reality that we are in the tail end. Everything that we consider valuable is gift for us.

]]> By: sombreroid https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html#comment-346941 Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:26:39 +0000 https://waitbutwhy.com/?p=4579#comment-346941 In reply to luckerooni.

Lol ok “choice” was a strong word, but yes I can ask for evidence and still live under the illusion/drug, like we all do!
Memes are being created right here (might not be pretty but it’s also art!) and what I really meant was that teaching is much faster than parenting.
We all remember Socrates and Shakespeare but nobody knows or cares about their descendants. Not that I think any amount of artwork or philosophy or natural wonder can ever make up for war and disease, so better they had not bred (if they did). Thank you for thinking before breeding.

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