Way to go?
To me , sleeping would be a peaceful way to go.
Let me tell you — from recent experience! — a cardiac arrest was a painless way to go, like falling into a deep, dreamless (except for a brief impression of a bright flash and bang of 200 joules from the defibrillator!) sleep, only to awaken from a
Propofol induced coma and hypothermia protocol (lowering the body temperature to just above 33°C/91.4°F) 36 hours later with three new stents, feeling fine.
This from my cardiologist's written record of the follow up appointment after a second angioplasty and another stent emplacement in October:
"EKG: Shows normal sinus rhythm with ventricular rate of 61 bpm. This is a normal EKG, showing no evidence of a prior infarction.
Mr. Nash is doing very well from a cardiovascular standpoint. It is astonishing that he had such a myocardial infarction and has recovered so well, with a normal ejection fraction."
I am convinced that If they ever
do open my chest, they'll find a label on my heart reading
"Timex®"! {smile}
… or perhaps it's a genetic legacy I inherited from my maternal grandmother (a hard working dairy farmer's wife in Bruce Crossing, MI), who suffered from seriously high blood pressure (routinely 300+ systolic pressure!) since age 30-35, only to pass away
at 40 days short of 100 years of age!
