Tag: death
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Death At One’s Elbow
A year ago today, my ex wife killed herself. At the time, we had been divorced for five or six years and I had custody of our three kids, so aside from the shock, there was little practical impact on our daily life – just a lot of mental goings on. Although I had a lot of conflicting feelings, grief was not one of them. I had grieved the loss of our relationship long before, and after a fairly bitter divorce that almost bankrupted me there was certainly no love lost. Most of what I felt was anger. Anger that… Read more
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Asset Retirement vs. Depreciation
Maybe it’s an age thing, but recently I’ve noticed that a lot of my fellow workers (or at least the full-time employees) are starting to talk about how long they’ve got until retirement. Like seriously talking about it, even though it’s 11 years away or something. They’ve probably got countdown apps on their iPhones that wake them up every morning: “You have 4,000 days left to retirement”. I guess that’s what comes of having a decent, company-subsidized pension scheme and a retirement plan. My retirement plan is simple: Work until I’m no longer employable and then kill myself. I tell… Read more
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He not busy being born…
This week another old (old established, not old aged) friend of mine died.   I hadn’t seen her in at least a couple of years – mainly because I have been living out of the country, but I still considered her a close friend. She’s the third one in the same group of friends who have died since I left England. Shit, I’m too young (at 39) to be scanning the obituaries already. Their death doesn’t upset me; death is inevitable – it is the one thing you can count on in life. What does bother me is that none of… Read more