“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” Isaac Asimov
Shaking your head? Here are my honest unvarnished impressions. Although I nearly suffered a traumatic death, which in the ER we all have imagined as a horrible way to die, I can say from experience when you don't see it coming, and it strikes in an instant as John Donne remarked - it may not be all that bad a way to pass from this world. Yet as a survivor of a sudden change, an alteration to worse, I have found it is the transition that is indeed most troublesome. In my case, thankfully, it was a transition back to finding life, a life that is again (mostly) pleasant!
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