Comments on: Oh, what a beautiful mourning http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2005/04/parent-trap/ Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Editrix http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2005/04/parent-trap/#comment-137 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:14:24 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2005/04/parent-trap/#comment-137 Very true -- and the Terri Schiavo case has certainly made a lot of people reexamine their ideas about end-of-life issues and create (or in the case of my parents, revise) living wills. Very true — and the Terri Schiavo case has certainly made a lot of people reexamine their ideas about end-of-life issues and create (or in the case of my parents, revise) living wills.

]]> by: Janet http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2005/04/parent-trap/#comment-136 Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:01:49 +0000 http://www.patheticfallacy.org/2005/04/parent-trap/#comment-136 One of my dad's favorite words, apparently, and not to be funny, is "predecease". He uses it at least once in nearly every conversation with Andy and me anymore. I'm reading Maria Montessori's <b>The Absorbent Mind</b>, in which she notes that "the child, unlike the adult, is not on his way to death. He is on his way to life." She is interested in the child, but I got to pondering the adult at that point. Perhaps your parents are more up-front about it than many of us, but we all need to think about the future. One of my dad’s favorite words, apparently, and not to be funny, is “predecease”. He uses it at least once in nearly every conversation with Andy and me anymore.

I’m reading Maria Montessori’s The Absorbent Mind, in which she notes that “the child, unlike the adult, is not on his way to death. He is on his way to life.” She is interested in the child, but I got to pondering the adult at that point. Perhaps your parents are more up-front about it than many of us, but we all need to think about the future.

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