Be ready to check out…

Be ready to check out…

Life is such a scarce commodity and goes so fast that we forget to be prepared when we have to check out.

It seems we are only able to live one life…. You just have to walk in any cemetery to realize that everybody has a unique opportunity to perfect this particular moment we are given to live.

I have presented the birth of my two daughters and it is one of the most incredible moment I have been given to live.

It is a very particular moment when the new born open its eyes and take its first breath. When you have this first eye contact, skin contact. When you can see how suddenly there is life expressing right in front of you in your hands. When out of not much of a body a being start to grow and expand…

And starts the clock to click and times to run. Inexorably effortless times like sand flowing between your fingers. You can see it, you can feel it but you can hold it, stop it.

So my project is to live so fully that at the very end of my life I will be the healthiest I can be, sharp mind and comfortable. But I will prepare how  I want to be assisted when the ineluctable decay of the physical body will signal that the check out times is close.

Being healthy will allow me to stay at home. Being healthy will allow me to not have to be heavily medicated. So it means I can have my room full of flowers, of sun, of music I like. I will have prepared in agreement with my doctor to agree on palliative care to manage the pain (if I would have to suffer it).

I will prepare an advance health care directive so my wishes are followed. It  is a written document that explains what type of end-of-life care I would  prefer. Include what treatments I want, whether or not I want life-saving measures taken, and what I want to happen if I become incapacitated. Give copies of your advance health care directive to your doctor, care team, and family members. Look for legal assessment how to write this document.
After assisting to my daughters birth I was given by my mother the opportunity to be with her to her last breathe.
It is the second most impacting event I would say as an human it is given to live. Birth and death are two gates that limit our life.
If we have no say in crossing the first one we do have more options with the second one.
Because when you presence the death of a loved one, when you see the last eye contact, when you see the last breath irremediably expiring without new one then you can fully realize how much life is finite.
As this last moment sign the end of the incarnation of our soul, of our entity.
So before thinking how to check out make sure to live your life to its best.
But at the same times prepare yourself to make it a special moment for your loved ones. And of course my bet is to get to die
naturally… entering the silence of eternity.

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