{"id":6708,"date":"2021-01-27T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2021-01-27T07:44:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:44:17","slug":"some-thoughts-on-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/some-thoughts-on-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts on Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6708\" data-postid=\"6708\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6708 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>My step mother recently passed away. My dad is 89. My uncle is dying from cancer. Almost 450,000 Americans have died of the corona virus with many more to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about death and the prospect of my own and what that might look like. As I have written elsewhere, I have always wanted to end my existence by plunging into Hart&#8217;s Cove, or perhaps off Otter Point. My body would never be recovered and I would return to the ocean where all life began. To me, that isn&#8217;t a morbid idea but perfectly natural and hastens my return to the water cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how will I know is the time? Will I have the strength of body and mind to execute this plan? I can&#8217;t very well ask anyone to help me. I can&#8217;t choose someone in my will to carry it out. I have no children to assist me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will that final moment come when I can do it myself and then that moment passes and I can&#8217;t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are some of my thoughts of late. They are not really sorting out. I need some beach time to consider them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My step mother recently passed away. My dad is 89. My uncle is dying from cancer. Almost 450,000 Americans have died of the corona virus with many more to come. I&#8217;ve been thinking about death and the prospect of my own and what that might look like. As I have written elsewhere, I have always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6711,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6708\/revisions\/6711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}