Ever thought about the big one?

Anonymous-0 · Sep 2, 2009

I have been getting a few requests for discing fire breaks due to the fires here in Calif. I finished a job today, and while loading and chaining my tractor. It was so hot, I just had to sit and rest a few minutes before finishing. I was thinking what if I had a heart attack out in the middle of nowhere. I guess when I didn't show up for supper someone would come looking for me. I guess it has happened some where. Stan

ScottyHOMeY · Sep 2, 2009

Yeah, it happens.

Knew a fella some years back whose dog came home at suppertime without him. Near as we can figure, he got the bar of his saw stuck in a tree and tried to use the bucket on the tractor to spring the tree to get his bar out. Tree came over on him, killed him in the seat.

As for the big one, I lost a respected friend of 30+ years this last weekend. He missed a get-together Saturday with friends. They knew he'd had a hard week and figured he might have gone to camp, though he was always pretty scrupulous about letting folks know if he wasn't going to show up for something he'd committed to. When he misssed church and another date Sunday, somebody went to check on him. Dead in bed, no sign of him even trying to reach the phone on the nightstand. Autopsy said it was the big one.

big hunter · Sep 2, 2009

are you ready to go to heaven or hell? which one will it be and how do you know?

1936 · Sep 2, 2009

Not realy a bad way to go (big H) if I had to pick seen too many family member lay and wait for years to pass. Chief as Clint Eastwood had said a man has to know his limitations.

TOO many tree huggers that let the brush and etc build up. The big ranger in the sky has a way to police up the stuff. Understand a two legged creater may have helped.

kruser · Sep 2, 2009

37Chief

I think I'd worry more about running out of fuel or breaking down inside the fire break. As mentioned a week or so ago, make sure your tractor can outrun the "insects".

Hats off to you for helping on what sounds to be a big problem.

Goose · Sep 2, 2009

I lost a good friend a couple of weeks ago. He was 68 and retired, but he still did home remodeling projects if one came along that he liked and if the spirit moved him.

He was working on a particular project in a nearby town. When he didn't come home in the evening, his wife went to check and found him dead on the job. A massive heart attack. His wife said he was happy and joking when he had left in the morning.

But, you know what? He died quickly and cleanly, doing what he enjoyed. I hope I'm as lucky. (But not for another twenty years or so).

showcrop · Sep 2, 2009

Hi Hunter, It truly lets you relax and enjoy life when you can look forward to it ending at any time, and knowing what awaits is even better.

pat sublett · Sep 2, 2009

Knew a guy well, he was in his early 40s. He went out one Saturday morning in July to cut cedar post, He didn't come home for supper. His wife called his father and brother to look for him. They found him dead. The coroner said he had been dead since about 10 oclock in the morning. Apparant heart attack.

James Howell · Sep 2, 2009

Visited my father in the hospital in Paris, TX every weekend before he passed.

James, as I called my father, was concerned that I was missing too much work to come see him.

One Friday night I was walking down the hallway and came upon an elderly man in a wheel chair.

I smiled and spoke to him while walking past.

He rolled over to me, took my hand, and asked me to take him home.

He said that he had no family and that he did not want to die in a hospital.

I was speechless.

One of the nurses on duty came over and wheeled him away.

Never will forget that old man.

As for me, I"ve told Nancy not to let me die in a hospital.

If I "fall out" somewhere on the farm, I"ll die a happy man.

Same as my granddaddy and same as my mother.

super99 · Sep 2, 2009

I'll be around until the good Lord calls me home. My dad walked out of the house on Labor Day and fell over dead. Mom looked out the window and thought it was some old clothes Dad had dropped until she took a closer look. Grandparents on Mom's side laid in a nursing home several years with Alsheimers before they died, now Mom is in the same position. I hope I go quick when the time comes. Chris

Paul from MI · Sep 2, 2009

Like the words in the song, Everybody wants to go their way, just not now. Me too.
Paul

Kanuck · Sep 2, 2009

My FIL has a saying, "Im not afraid of dying, just dont want to be there when it happens."
He has a great sense of humor. Have a good one.

Ande · Sep 2, 2009

Havent thought of that,as I guess when the Good Lord decides,I know I will have to go.So till then,its enjoy something out of each day,and keep on making friends

ericlb · Sep 2, 2009

never think of it if i get to heaven, and thats a big if, ill be too busy being relieved i made it, and if i go to the other place i'll be too busy talking to people i know to worry, and mom in law, if i go down, "i wont need no fire, and i'll be sure and save you a seat"

Anonymous-0 · Sep 2, 2009

Lost a brother-in-law, a sister-in-law, and my first wife all before age 40 from heart attacks. My dad died at age 61 in a similar fashion.

I figure if I was to keel over dead some morning while reading my newspaper, my wife would find out about the time my daughter called to ask why I wasn't at her work to pick up my grandson. Not a big concern, since I won't have any say in the matter when/if it happens.

RayP(MI) · Sep 2, 2009

Had a small one a few years back. By the time the finally got it diagnosed, too late for stints, etc. So I'm running around with a injured heart. Also developed congestive heart failure. Taking a bunch of medicines for all that. Anyway, I spend a lot of time working the fields and around the farm --- ALONE. Guess I just try to be careful, and if I have the big one, they'll discover me in a few hours. Do carry a cell phone, but getting a e-unit to some of my fields would be quite a task, giving directions. Guess If I go, I'll go doin' what I want!

LEH · Sep 2, 2009

Old friend of mine farmed & sold seed for years. Moved to town but didn't like it much. Went out to the farm every chance he had. One day he noticed his renter had stopped the planter on the far side of a 90 acre field. Parked his truck and started that way on foot. Never made it. I always thought, knowing him as I did, that he would have been OK with going, out in the middle of that field under blue sky, in freshly worked ground.

S.Crum · Sep 2, 2009

I had one of my guys at work die in my arms 2 years ago next month. Massive heart attack, he was gone before we could do anything. Now there are 4 people besides myself on shift who are CPR and AED certified and a new AED unit is on the wall in my office. I sure hope everyone thinks I'm a good boss, all the training I got won't do me a heck of a lot of good if I'm the unlucky one.

buickanddeere · Sep 3, 2009

Better than dying healthy.
Dr just gave me a blast of wrath yesterday. Borderline high on just about everything. Hopefully loosing a few lbs will take care of it all.

Wilson · Sep 3, 2009

Not to tick off the moderators so I will just tell my experience. Had medical mixup supposed to get heart test not called Natural pacemaker quite after 2 near lighting strikes. In operating room had 6th shock to restart heart. Most peasefull experience ever known. You must truly trust Jesus. Be wary of any group saying you must do some work or activity to be saved. It's only by Jesus you may enter in heaven

Kansas 4010 · Sep 3, 2009

I figure why worry about it, can't do anything about it. My dad always said I'm gonna live forever because heaven doesn't want me and hells afraid i'll take over.

olddog · Sep 3, 2009

Grandson's other grandfather died that way.
Neighbor looked out and wondered why he was baleing in ever widening circles. Slumped over, arm hooked thru steering wheel. RIP "Bud". Was doing what he most liked to do.

fixerupper · Sep 3, 2009

Dropping dead out in the back forty is the way I'd like to go. No one around me, just nature. When yer dead, yer dead and you don't care where on earth you're at anymore. Sounds like a careless statement, but after we lost our daughter my wife and I are more nonchelant about death. It's gonna happen so we had just as well dream about where we'd like to be when the time comes.

For many years I've told Marilyn to just call my neighbor with the backhoe to come dig a hole somewhere on the farm and throw me in when I die. Then have the family and friends over for coffee. It'll save her a heckuv a lot of money. Still haven't convinced her of that one yet! Jim

Tim SD · Sep 3, 2009

Think about it daily,I lost both grandpas due to heart attacks in there late 40's. Always liked to here my dad tell me about his dad's attack,He was milking cows and didn't come in for supper,they found him laying on the path from the barn to the house with the milk bucket beside him and his trusty Chesepeak retriever laying across his chest.He was gone, dad said the dog would'nt let the coroner/doctor near him for some time.

Tim SD · Sep 3, 2009

Think about it daily,I lost both grandpas due to heart attacks in there late 40's. Always liked to here my dad tell me about his dad's attack,He was milking cows and didn't come in for supper,they found him laying on the path from the barn to the house with the milk bucket beside him and his trusty Chesepeak retriever laying across his chest.He was gone, dad said the dog would'nt let the coroner/doctor near him for some time.

john d · Sep 3, 2009

Came close enough to death nearly 8 years ago that I don't spend much effort or time worrying about it now. Figure the time I've had since then is a gift, and when it's time for me to go......then I shouldn't feel like complaining!

Neighbor retired a few years ago. He drove a semi tanker truck for Farm Bureau, hauling LP gas most of the time. They had a little party for him at the end of the shift on his last day. He came home, sat down in the recliner to watch tv while his wife finished fixing dinner. She called him to come eat...he didn't answer. Gone from a massive heart attack just a couple of hours after he'd been wheeling that tanker!

Anonymous-0 · Sep 3, 2009

Trusting in Jesus gives me the assurance I will go to heaven. stan

waltdavies · Sep 3, 2009

Hey! some of us old geezers with bad hearts could just as well pass on all ways to croak. Giggle

Walt

MSS3020 · Sep 3, 2009

My wife told me that she was going to bury me with my A$$ stickin out of the ground so she could ride her bike over to visit me and have a place to park it.

NawlensGator · Sep 3, 2009

Welder at local Industrial Supply shop went home a few months back and dropped dead as he entered the door from a massive heart attack. He was 42.

Going all at once isn't a bad way to go. Ive got a 57 yr old buddy dying of mesothilioma. It's a slow agonizing way to go.

Nancy Howell · Sep 3, 2009

I'll make you this promise, my love. I will do everything I can to make sure you do not pass in a hospital. And when you do, if you go before me, I'll do whatever it takes to make sure your remains stay at the farm.

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