If you had a crystal ball and you knew you were going to have 5 terrible years at the end of your life due to health issues of some kind that would drain your finances and put hardships on your family..................Would you trade the last good and healthy 10 years prior to avoid the 5 bad years and all that goes with it. Basically, would you give up the good years to avoid the bad years?
It may seem like a simple either/or thought process-
In several ways I am living a similar description right now-
I was asked and had to decide that I wanted to loose my limbs and live without them, but if I refused the amputations I would not leave the hospital alive-
Soooooo, I can stay alive in this hospital and be somewhat pain free but paralyzed until I expire, or——
A lot of life as I knew it would never be the same, for myself or my loved ones-
I could go on but most of you already know the story -
Just saying, I actually had to make a similar choice to TPACK’s scenario above-
I did not avoid the bad years and I don’t regret it-