Illya Kuryakin

[Ashy]

It's what he would have wanted.

[Cassandra]

I guess so.

To my mind it isn't quite how long you last but how long you can remain independent followed by a swift exit.

Bit morbid I guess.

So redolent of how some of former clients led their lives somehow, on the beach today, in the clink tomorrow

[dextrous63]

How very strange it all is.. Sam must have known something.. He put all his finances in order a few months before he died.. 53.
 I'm going to have a donut today.. sod it..

My father used to sign his carer's timesheet every Sunday a week in advance.  One Sunday, he said he'd just sign it up until the following Thursday.  He died on that Thursday.

[klondike]

Spooky

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[JBR]

My father used to sign his carer's timesheet every Sunday a week in advance.  One Sunday, he said he'd just sign it up until the following Thursday.  He died on that Thursday.

Yes, very strange.
It is not uncommon, I believe, for people in old age to be able to accurately predict the time of their death.

In less than good health, although aged only 71, I sometimes wonder when my time will come, particularly on a 'not too good' day.

[Cassandra]

Following a change to my medication ('maybe' effects were pre-warned) I have felt most odd all today, indeed and couldn't get up off the sofa (room was spinning) until Annie looked in.

At one stage when I attempted the vertical I did wonder, is this how it starts?

[dextrous63]

Cass, I'm reminded of Bob Monkhouse coming out with this joke shortly before he died...

https://youtu.be/BTUvRW7gtGU?si=M3ebFI_rMLe5N0Ll

[Michael Rolls]

oh dear!

[Cassandra]

Cass, I'm reminded of Bob Monkhouse coming out with this joke shortly before he died...

https://youtu.be/BTUvRW7gtGU?si=M3ebFI_rMLe5N0Ll

Its like Spike Milligan's last epithet. On his Gravestone are these words

"I told you I was ill"

[Michael Rolls]

remember it well

[Cassandra]

Cass, I'm reminded of Bob Monkhouse coming out with this joke shortly before he died...

https://youtu.be/BTUvRW7gtGU?si=M3ebFI_rMLe5N0Ll

A very funny and brave man, my father appeared for him a couple of times I recall and was always impressed with his perfect recall of meetings past and what had been said etc.

[dextrous63]

A very funny and brave man, my father appeared for him a couple of times I recall and was always impressed with his perfect recall of meetings past and what had been said etc.

He had one heck of a memory.  As well as his comedic profession, I recall him presenting Celebrity Squares, and a regular slot of the show was asking him for World Records from the Guinness Book of..

He had a near perfect recall of those too.

[Scrumpy]

Following a change to my medication ('maybe' effects were pre-warned) I have felt most odd all today, indeed and couldn't get up off the sofa (room was spinning) until Annie looked in.

At one stage when I attempted the vertical I did wonder, is this how it starts?

Nah!! I bloody hope not.. I often come over all funny.. and a bit dizzy..

[Cassandra]

He had one heck of a memory.  As well as his comedic profession, I recall him presenting Celebrity Squares, and a regular slot of the show was asking him for World Records from the Guinness Book of..

He had a near perfect recall of those too.

Yes my dad had something to do with a dispute over his intellectual rights to many of the gags he'd written. He reeled them off hundreds of them with perfection apparently.