Posted by Anne Onymous on Fri, 07/18/2003 - 10:48am.
Archived comment by Paul:
Some time back my daughter realized that we're all mortal, and got very weepy over the thought that someday I would die. (I have no idea what triggered it- just all of a sudden there she was, crying her eyes out.) I acknowledged that yes, someday this would happen, but not any time soon. This was not very comforting to her at that point, so I told her that, given the way medicine is progressing and given my family's history, that I figure I'll hit 120, so she'd better be nice to me because I'll be around for another 80 years. That last line at least got her to chuckle, and then she was able to get past it.
But if it's true, if I do reach 120, then she's going to be 90 and have her own worries...
Some time back my daughter realized that we're all mortal, and got very weepy over the thought that someday I would die. (I have no idea what triggered it- just all of a sudden there she was, crying her eyes out.) I acknowledged that yes, someday this would happen, but not any time soon. This was not very comforting to her at that point, so I told her that, given the way medicine is progressing and given my family's history, that I figure I'll hit 120, so she'd better be nice to me because I'll be around for another 80 years. That last line at least got her to chuckle, and then she was able to get past it.
But if it's true, if I do reach 120, then she's going to be 90 and have her own worries...