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Don't Die at Your Worst!

The reason I'm writing this myTake is because my mother is dying.

She has between a few months to a couple years left to live, despite being only 42.

there's something wrong with her liver that she claims has nothing to do with her ten+ years of heavy drinking.

There's nothing inspirational about this. My mother is a depressed, paranoid woman who has been suicidal for as long as I've known what that meant. She's taking this diagnosis as a chance to finally give up on life, fully believing that this is the one reason nobody can argue with.

Unfortunately for her, its the worst reason.

So she gave up quitting alcohol, she's stopped cooking, she isn't working and she's becoming increasingly abusive towards her partner who is simply standing by and allowing this to happen. (Insert here a few angry words about how useless the bastard is).

If you suspect that you are going to die someday, whether by diagnosis or simply because everyone does eventually. How would you prefer to go?

Like my mother, throwing everything away, looking back at a lifetime of misery and regret.

Or would you rather look back and think "I did the best I could"?

I know how I'd rather go.

Don't Die at Your Worst!
Don't Die at Your Worst!
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