What's your worst fear
 

Well, I think everybody has one, their worst fear, mine is dying on my own. Living alone for most of the time and having had some very close shaves recently it really does bother me. Okay I have a 24 hour emergency call system in my flat, and can usually cope well with medical emergencies, but I certainly coudn't have coped with the one last August, I'm just thankful there was some one with me at the time and that the Paramedics were so very efficient as I was going into Hypoxia, another 5 minutes and I wouldn't have been around to tell the tale. When you see the Saturation metre reading 67% you know your have a big problem and the prospect of a repeat performance scares the hell out of me evey day

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Drowning.... crashing (car/bus).... spiders chasing me!:D

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I have never seen anyone chased by a spider.. oh dear :) My wife got chased by a bee once.. that was funny :)

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It could happen!! I just hope not to me:D

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Take it you don't keep Tarantulas as pets then AccyLass:D

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something happening to my children..... and jellyfish, horrible things!!

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I couldn't watch the film Arachnophobia.... so no:D

Altho some of the ones in the house...... are enough to make me scream and run! lol

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Think mine would have to be being diagnosed with cancer. After seeing the effects the chemo had on Ian there is no way I could put myself through it. So I would be aware that my life was nearly over.

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wearing a dingle shirt, owt else i can cope with.:D

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That they stop making spiky, strappy, stiletto heeled shoes
or
That I become unable to wear them

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visiting Ma and finding her 'gone'...spiritually.
Though I know I would cope, but it is one of the things that I really dread

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Dementia............

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i have that already so that doesnt scare me

like Emma said though, my worst fear and the only fear i have in my life is that something dreadful would happen to Reece, i am very surprised none of you other than Emma has said your kids, i think that is very unthoughtful of you

and yes i know that goes without saying....but you lot DID go without saying it

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Cheers

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I agree with Flashy & Emamum, mine is if something bad was to happen to the boys, dont think that there is anything else that scares or worries me like that

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Live people fear death - take reassurance from the fact that dead people don't

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My biggest fear, if you can call it that, is having regrets.

Being on my deathbed, whenever that may be, and wishing 'if only'. I'd find that very sad.

Happily I have no regrets in my life so far, and as for other fears, they'd take up to much of my time and effort to expend any of my energy on them. They'd unnecessarily waste too much time, that could be spent more productively.

Even as an atheist I think these words are very apt.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

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That's a very touching post Garinda, and hit a nerve with me.

My mum always said to us don't grieve too much when I go, I have no regrets in life, have had a good husband, good children, short of nothing I 'needed' and never suffered any ill health. She was 89 when she died, and it did make her passing easier for me, as recalled these words.

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Thank you.

I can understand Jaysay's fear about being alone when he dies, but personally I think it's quite sad. Sad because it's fretting about something we can't do anything about.

When my dad died, it was lucky that we were all on the bed with him. I'd raced up from London, not knowing that he only had a few hours left. We were able to tell him he was a much loved husband/dad/father-in-law. We were able to be there as he breathed his last breath.

We were lucky in a way to have that privilige, but on the other hand he could have passed away with none of us there, but he would still have known that he was loved, and his life as a husband and dad had been appreciated because he already knew it, because we'd told him before.

Sometimes I think I must be a right soppy sod...but I don't care.

None of us has a guaranteed time of exit from this life.

What we can be certain of though is making sure that those we care about, know they are loved.

You don't even need to say those words. A simple act can speak a thousand words, when it comes to showing that emotion we call love.

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I just wanted to say that what Garinda and Katex have said on this thread is lovely:)

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Ditto..........:rolleyes:

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Maybe you could think about your Gran who died on Sunday this way Accylass .. she did appear, from what you have said, to have been a happy and contented lady who enjoyed the company of her family.

My worse fear is, of course after losing my family, is not particularly to die alone, but not to be found for a while and my left overs to be found in a state of decomposition ... yuk.

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I like these two quotes too.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when.
But you can decide how you're going to live now.
-- Joan Baez

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.
-- Mark Twain

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Yeah, thanks Kate:)

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I'm sure you'd decompose as beautifully as you lived.

Stop fretting, if you don't post for more than a certain amount of time, other than when you're away in sunnier climes, I'll make sure things are set in motion, to make sure you're fear doesn't happen.

:D:)

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Aaah bless... gosh, we've got 'maudling' 'aint we.

Perhaps you could be the consultant with my dress Garinda ... LOL. Although sure daughter will make sure my shroud is a colour that suits me, and mascara in place. :D

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I can't stand to be in totally black room because I feel that I can't breathe. A tiny chink of light makes it OK but total darkness suffocates me so I absolutely dread it.

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Anything happening to my daughter.

(and I wasn't being thoughtless, I was out at working, providing for said daughter! :rolleyes:)

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I don't think I have a worst fear. I tend not to spend time worrying about things that I cannot control, so I guess I'm with Garinda and Katex on that one.:)

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I was the same lettie, until I had a near miss 6 months ago, unfortunately its now at the back of my mind, and spending a lot of time on my own doesn't help much either

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My worst fear would be for any of my kids to go missing!!:eek:
The thought of them being out there all alone or with some pervert just makes me cringe to the bone:(, the thought is just.........:(

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my biggest fear is my kids diein b4 me , my mother has lost two kids , well they were adults when they died but there still here kids , she has also lost her mother 12month after she lost her first child , i realy don,t know how she copes ,

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mine is thunder and lighting,that puts the fear of god up me.

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Accylass, when you see a spider, get that big book of yours out, throw it, squash it and leave it as a trophy on the wall as you did in the other house

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Oh god that spider was horrible!!! and I only managed to do that cos it was near the kids lol