A Use By Date...

 Just got to thinking about all these visits to specialists when people are older. We have all heard the stories that someone in their eighties, even older,  has to have procedures like a skin cancer removed. I know but does it come to a stage where we die with something...or from something?

We hear of so many having trips to specialists when in their very senior years..often its more like a full time job; a check for this here and a check for that there. 

 

It’s great that the care is there and that we have so many to look after us when older but does it come to a time when we maybe should just let nature take it’s course instead of constantly fighting to swim up stream.

 

I remember when my Father was very ill and in his eighties and was in hospital...he died not long after...when he was in hospital they were always taking him for tests and x-rays and I said to the doctor one day...” Is that all really necessary?”. His reply was “...maybe not.”

I knew my Father was really  ill...the doctor knew...we all knew and as I say we would all like to live forever but in many cases the body just wears out.

 

We have a used by date whether we like it or not. In the Biblical sense it was three score years and ten. Luckily enough many carry on way beyond that  “used by date”  but we keep on having tests for this and that..something removed, or checked and yet pay another specialist and it’s all well and good but surely it comes to a stage...an age...when we should just be allowed to get on with it without frightening us into some procedure that really, when it comes to it, is not really necessary.

 

Is it just giving someone a highly paid job, paying for a service that is not really required, or is it that service that is keeping us alive? A conundrum indeed!

 

So is it better to die with it or from it...a big question and something we will all have to face at one stage or another in our life  😕