You dont know true pain until....

[Turtle Rock Farm]

I've slid down a horses neck and landed right on my butt - just like going down a slide. I've been fallen on. But the best one was when I landed on my feet (pure luck-not skill) still holding the reins...sounds good, huh? Problem was the horse wasn't finished and on his next jump he launched me through the air behind him (still holding the reins) and separated my shoulder, ugh.

Ouch. I've gone off head first over the front more times than I remember---hurrah for helmets.

 

[Baymule]

I'm going to live to be 105 years old. I'll get thrown off my favorite horse, hit my head on a rock, and check out.

The other scenario is where I get too feeble to live on my own. I have instructed my children to take me camping in bear country, rub me down with raw bacon and pitch my tent out away from the campsite. If I wander off, don't be in a hurry to come look for me.

 

[AClark]

I think it's not going to matter how old I am, I'm going to "check out" (I like that Baymule, lol) doing something stupid.

 

[Bruce]

Put that off awhile, you have kids to raise!

 

[Turtle Rock Farm]

I'm going to live to be 105 years old. I'll get thrown off my favorite horse, hit my head on a rock, and check out.

The other scenario is where I get too feeble to live on my own. I have instructed my children to take me camping in bear country, rub me down with raw bacon and pitch my tent out away from the campsite. If I wander off, don't be in a hurry to come look for me.

I'm gonna have a heart attack whilst trying to push an overfull wheelbarrow into a cow pen 2' deep in manure.

 

[greybeard]

Best dismount I've had yet landed me on my feet. Love when I have time to plan where I'm gonna land.

So much less painful than say, crashing into the fence....

I have instructed my children to take me camping in bear country, rub me down with raw bacon and pitch my tent out away from the campsite. If I wander off, don't be in a hurry to come look for me.

I don't think I could follow that thru. A few years ago, there was a news story about a young lady up in bear country (Russia I think) that had gotten attacked, was disabled to the point she could fight no more or run. Had her cell phone and called their equivilent of 911, but she was way out in the boonies. She then called her mom, and (I think she had to leave a message) told how the bear had begun to eat her, starting with her legs...It was hard to read.
I suppose it could have been a hoax, but well..never know.
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[Baymule]

It would beat a living death in a nursing home.

 

[AClark]

DH and I have a pact that neither of us goes to the nursing home. I used to work in a nursing home, and that is hell on earth, even the good ones. Ours was clean and all, but there's something to be said about how our elderly are treated by their families. Most of them are lonely and sad much of the time. It was depressing to work there, I ended up quitting.
I'd honestly rather be taken out back and shot like Ole Yeller than to go to one of those. That said, I have also requested if I am brain-dead not to be resuscitated. The way I see it is, if we can offer a humane ending to our pets, we should be offered the same.

 

[Bruce]

You got that right @AClark! I do not understand why people are anti "Death with dignity".

 

[newton the goat]

When a 3month old (not yet dehorned) heifer swings her head and catches you directly in the temple with said spike of a horn jist because you didnt put her milk pail down fast enough