Guilt

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8. That perspective is reality, as well.

Thanks, Frasier! I've often wondered which is easier, both for the dying and for the survivors. My father died in 2001 after a long, slow illness. My mother died in 2002, in a shocking manner -- just alive and then dead, but she was 11 years younger!

I will certainly go much younger than she did, even - and yet... Maybe this is just about right for me. Enough time, and not too much.