Well, I got out of school today, to see that I had a voicemail from my girlfriend on my phone. I thought it was weird because she left it when she should have been in school. I went to check my voicemail, and she was crying and sobbing and I feared the worst. Well, her great-grandmother passed away in her sleep last night. She was 98 years old. We saw her for Christmas and she seemed to be doing very well for a 98 year old. As I sit and think about the way this woman lived out her life, I can't help but think how perfect her passing was. First of all, she was 98, and never had to live in any sort of nursing home. She was actually living on her own. She died in her sleep, so she never felt anything. She was in great shape for someone of that age. Fully mobile and everything. She never had to work a day in her life, but actually made a small fortune playing the stock market back in the 70s. She never really spent any of that, so that has been left to what is left of her family (my girlfriend's immediate family). What little she might have spent, she spent on very elegant furnishings and things...which has all been left to her family. She actually had everything prepared and planned out the way she wanted it. She wrote all this down, in about a 4 page paper about 2 years ago. The clothes she wants to be buried in were tucked away in the closet, what type of funeral she wanted, the casket, everything. She talked about how she wanted my girlfriend to have this authentic china tea set that she bought for her daughter when her daughter was a child, and how my girlfriend's brother should get her husband's watch collection. Many other things like that. I just can't help but think how perfect this is. And that if I could ever choose the way I went, it would be something like this. I can't help but feel kind of sad, but in my heart, even as an extended portion of the family (I guess I would call myself), I can't help but be extremely proud and happy for her. That's all. I just wanted to share that with you guys.
i thought you were gonna say something along the lines of blowing rails of fine peruvian marching powder while slamming two expensive swedish hookers, but that's cool too.
Funny you should say that because that is how the founder of Micromuse went out. He crashed his McLaren F1 riding around with a supermodel and friend while on bail for possession of crack cocaine.
the loss of one's girlfriend's great grandmother can be very tough to cope with. my deepest sympathies to you.
there's no reason for them to be sad, she was 98 and she died peacefully. the only sad thing to me is the fact that they let her live alone.
It was her choice to live alone. She always said she didn't want to be a burden. Her son-in-law (if that's what you call it...she outlived her daughter), checked up on her every other day, and she called him or my girlfriend's mother daily. She was well taken care of, and because it was recently Christmas, she had just been up to visit and play Skip-Bo with us. She was still awesome at Skip-Bo at 98.
I'm not saying this to be a smart ass, but if she was in great shape, showed no signs of ill health, why did she die? I've lost family members, but none at an old age where they still seemed to be in good health.
I think this is one of those "she died because it was her time" kind of thing. She was 98. Her heart that was perfectly healthy seeming one day just decided to stop that night. Good for her. Living to an old age is one thing...living to a HEALTHY old age it another and it seems like she did just that.
Exactly. When someone dies of old age, a lot of times, it's just like something going out on a car. One day, it just goes out. It could be your heart stops beating, your diaphragm stops working, anything like that. Your organs just eventually wear out and stop working, no matter how great of health you're in.
