Surely when you arrive at the raddled old fart stage
sat in bed with all sorts of diseases is the time to
call it a day, not when there is plenty of life left
in the bones.

After all some one once said, 'Who wants to be an 85
year old.' Reply, 'An 84 year old'.

As for the religious bit and life after death, I believe
when the lights go out that is it, so enjoy the time
for as long as possible.

On the other hand there may be a grain of truth in
the life after death theory.

Whatever happens one of us will be wrong and wil get
either a nasty or pleasant surprise!

Dave


At 11:00 05 May 2005, Justin Fielding wrote:
Yip, live fast die young. Better than sitting in bed
at 70 with all
types of disease and cancer eating away at your internal
organs. You
can't hide from death, it will come to vist one day
and unless you are
religious and believe in the afterlife etc, it doesn't
really matter if
it is sooner or later, you will still end up dead!

J.


NW_PILOT wrote:
'private' wrote in message
news:hQ7ce.1148571$8l.556991@pd7tw1no...

My apologies to the Usenet police cross posting
but



I am in mourning for friends lost, and in sympathy
for the families they
left alone.



This week we have seen behavior that can only be described
as reckless.



A man posts video of a poorly performed roll in a non
aerobatic aircraft
without regard for ...............to say nothing about
his instructor
PARTICIPATING. Two survivors and a questionable aircraft



CFIT A multiple champion pilot losses control while
reaching for a $100

side

bet.

One fatal.



911?, fuel exhaustion, over water, without flotation,
at night. One
(probable) fatal.



I am tempted to ask why? where are we failing? are
we glorifying
recklessness? Are we truly self destructive (cigarettes,
food, alcohol,
pollution etc)? what can we do? but



I know that we must each find the answers within ourselves
and to strive

for

the personal situational control to handle these situations
and

temptations.

Training helps, as do mentors. (Thank you Dudley, Gene
etal)



I am sick of hearing 'he died doing something he loved'.
It just sounds
trite.



They are always way too young.



My condolences and sympathy to all mourning family
and friends.




Ok what about the people you don't here about all
the fools driving cars
talking on cell phone, driving while under the influence
of a mind altering
substance like Prozac and the many other pansy pills.
'Ohh dont for get
about the other drugs people use'

'You know Moving any faster than a walking pace can
be potentially fatal!'

I would not say that we are glorifying recklessness,
if it wasn't for people
you call reckless we would still be living in caves.
Most of us that are in
to flying or other extreme hobbies have a huge respect
for life but also
have that need for that adrenalin. I my-self wake
up every day and am very
thankful that I don't have to stick a needle in my
arm or suck something up
my nose to get that rush, I have many many other activity's
like flying to
get that feeling.

You will Die one day that's a fact of Life!! You cannot
hide from it! You
cannot run from it! So embrace the Life you have been
given and enjoy it
with every breath you take because you may never know
when it may be your
last.