Illness Can Aid You Maturally

In recent years, i have talked to several friends and colleagues who spoke of their parents suffering from advanced stages of dementia. Many of them acknowledge that their parents don't even recognize them any more. There is something very frightening about losing one's memory and control because you inhabit a world where all familiarity has gradually left you and taken away your identity. Illness can aid you maturely. And so when we do think of our own death, we want to die as we have lived, just older, not sick, not dependent, and most of all, still with the capacity to show love and feel loved.