No wonder owly always gets bully by us... its 4 against 1!

maine, try harder next time...

Wormies. Managed to catch a quick shot (or were there shots?) with you that night..

The guys team. Ed - 62 mins, Fish - 72 mins

our 2nd run. aiming for the 21km????? da, you serious ah?

maine & I. thanks for helping us look after our barang barang tht day.

sissys

Saying " I Do"

I was reading the sunday times when i came across this true account of a man's mom last final days...

His mom was diagnosed with cancer. medication failed to work on her and she decided to end her life. In Netherlands, physician-assisted suicide is made legal, as long as the doc is able to ascertain 3 things - unbearable pain and suffering, the patient's request for euthanasia must be voluntary and persist over time and lastly, verification by another doc that the patient cannot be cured.

His mom was real brave. Her decison to go for the euthanasia wasnt very much discussed between herself and her family - husband and sons. Instead, she seemed to make up her mind, get the location, flowers, coffin and even the text -the long things caucausian say during funerals. very much determined. she fussed over her sons' shoes & unclean toilets days and hours before her last hour. she arranged for the day and time to die too -monday, Feb 11 2008 at 6.15. she had her last meals with her extended family members, siblings and their family. They were puzzled by her hypeness, instead of behaving like a terminally-ill woman, she behaved like a bouncy young lady during her final days. She tidied the house at wee hours in the day, scrub and clean the house, decorating the dining table lavishly for her last meals with her sisters and their husbands.

Even up to that arranged day and arranged time, she kept herself busy, listing down the things she packed into the boxes and bags, even when the doc was there, prepared to give her the lethal injection. She excused herself and was left to be alone for a while, before emerging and lying on her bed. With her husband and sons and the doc by her side, she was given the injection and went to sleep....

I kinda like the last part. The entry was written 5 days after his mom chose euthanasia (i assume its putting someone to slp)...

People at funerals often say that the deceased would have approved of the ceremony. In my mother's case, she had literally approved everything - the music, the flowers, the guest list and the restaurant we went to afterwards. My main regret is that there were such clashes between us, in the run-up to her death. Perhaps if we had challenged Mom more over the years, keeping her ever-increasing demands in check, we could have been at peace as a family, instead of at war over shoes and toilets, right up to the bitter end.

The part about the clashes between his mom and his family - he mentioned about the conflicts he, his brother and his dad faced with his mom. I guess, that could be because to a person who is dying soon, she might have lost the patience and the good-nature. She become snappy, irritable and emotional. In the account, he talked about how his mom tried hard to explain to the doc why she insisted to die. It's not the part of the pain and sickness that his mom finds it unbearable, but rather, the fear of the sickness getting worse and of losing control over it.

For some reason, I find his account of his mom's last days captivating and silly thoughts ran thru' my mind. Man plan for a lot of things thru'out his life and usually, the thing that man fails to plan is his death, mainly because you cant forsee it from coming. But will the day come when you can even plan for your own death? Like the author's mom, she planned for all the nitty-gritty stuffs, such as the music (suddenly thot of the music rachel always hum during sec 2, lols), the flowers, the location, the guest list, the clothes you wear and the make up you put on, the coffin etc. come to think of it, there are so much things to take care of... it's frightenting to even think about it. Is such arranged death better, in a way, than those sudden, out-of-the-blue death (accidents, heart attacks etc)? At least, you get the chance to say goodbye to all your loved ones. I always think of this same question - will the dead see their loved ones mourning for them at their funeral? Secretly, i believe the dead do, though you just cant use scientific ways to explain for that.

As you can see, im letting my thoughts run wild again. :/