Life expectancy has gone up since, so if I follow family tradition, expect me to be around offering unsolicited views and opinions to all and sundry for a while yet.
A young friend in her thirties recently lost her rather young uncle – in his forties – to heart attack. It was sudden and unexpected and happened exactly a hundred days after the uncle lost his wife.
I seem to remember there were more deaths while I was growing up. There were fewer people around certainly, but more seemed to be dying, often earlier than would be usual nowadays. More of them also lived nearby in close-knit families, so perhaps we noticed it even more because of that. Living in a fishing community then, there would be the occasional tragedies of those who never came back from the sea. We also lost people to poisonous belangkas . I’ve actually eaten those crabs, caught from the same place over the years, but luckily not when they became poisonous.
Nor man-made ones. There were the scary years during the “Emergency”, which was the British euphemism for the major communist insurrection in the 1950s which was almost a civil war but one that luckily never got to the level of Vietnam and Indonesia. People live longer nowadays and enjoy their pensions longer too, which is wreaking havoc with our pensions economics. Living longer also wreaks havoc to those who don’t receive pensions and have inadequate savings, in a society that doesn’t see taking care of its aged as a filial duty anymore. For many, it must be a very scary proposition to grow old.
Neither of them feared death. They led the life of the faithful and the thought of meeting their Maker didn’t scare them. I was lucky enough to be able to take care of them in their old age, along with my sisters, and I had no unfinished business with them.
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