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Richard Jernigan
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 RE: Robbie Krieger (in reply to kitarist)
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Chances are, one of these days I will be a bit out of it too. I have known only very few people who retained their mental sharpness into their nineties.
My father was in good shape up to age 90. My mother did well until 94. But both of them pretty much lost it during the last three or four years of their lives.
My great-uncle Custis Lee Jernigan lived to be 96. He was president of the Vicksburg, Mississippi school board in his late eighties, his last episode of public service. He wasn't a politician, but he held a few offices in the city and county over the years. At age 96 he made from scratch a detailed working model of a water pumping windmill and sent it to his brother, my grandfather. It had hundreds of pieces, all worked by hand. On a Saturday he asked his oldest son to assemble all his siblings after church on Sunday. His son asked why. "I think I'm going to die," answered Uncle Tuss.
After a good Sunday dinner, cake and coffee, prepared by his second wife, Uncle Tuss told his offspring he had lived a long and prosperous life, he felt blessed and honored by having them. He said he had felt poorly for the last few days. He recited his will verbatim, several pages. He gave them all his blessing and wished them well.
The next day he took to his bed and died.
I know of no more fortunate ending.
But if I lose a few steps before I depart, I trust my friends not to publish videos of me.
RNJ
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Date May 20 2020 7:01:57
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kitarist
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RE: Robbie Krieger (in reply to Richard Jernigan)
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I see now you've added a sentence after "and so on.." in the previous post. I might not have replied had I seen it then; now my jokey reply seems odd/insensitive.. Sorry about that.
I just happened to be reading Bertrand Russell's short essay "How to grow old" last Sunday(*) - which is really about how not to grow old, as he says:
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In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully.
A couple of other paragraphs:
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
and at the very end:
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The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
(*) Available for free as part of the collection "Portraits from Memory and Other Essays" here: https://archive.org/details/portraitsfrommem011249mbp/page/n55/mode/2up
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Date May 20 2020 7:50:34
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: Robbie Krieger (in reply to Guest)
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I hope I’m still playing at his age.
Odds are you will. In 1983, while on a Washington, DC assignment, I had the great good fortune to see (separately) concerts performed by Andres Segovia, who was at the time 90 years old, and Carlos Montoya, who was 80 years old. I don't know how much longer Segovia performed because the following year I was on an overseas assignment. I do know, however, that Montoya performed until he was 85 or 86 years old.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
--Rudyard Kipling
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