2007-07-05 04:11:42 · 42 answers · asked by ifhusain 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Senior citizens don't always "pray" for death. You are making an assumption based on an incomplete observation. If YOUR elderly relatives always pray for death, and you judge them a burden, I feel sorry for THEM.
You have asked a number of questions on this senior citizen site, each one aimed at upsetting us more. Why are you doing this? Are you trolling for answers that may be given in anger, and will get us disqualified because of community guidelines? Or are you genuinely ignorant of the fact that the increasing nastiness of your questions are offensive and designed to upset us?
2007-07-05 06:06:06 · answer #1 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
GOOD QUESTION...Are you a senior citizen? Do you always pray for death? Are you a burden to your children? If your old, I hope you have had a great life, so far. If you always pray for death, are you ill? If you feel your a burden to your children, try contacting social services for some help. These are clinically cold answers. Take heart, that there are people who care. In fact, most of us do. We just say we don't.
2007-07-06 00:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not all of them - why do you think all of them do? Those who do, you can see the reasons already posted by others here. Yes, and some do pray for death because they love their children and seeing that they are a burden to their children, they do pray for death - but that's when they are really not well. It's love that drives them to do so, in some cases even if the children look after them very well - which is paradoxical, because they see how their children is burdened and as they love them, they pray for death.
Life could be like a box of chocolates, after all. *sigh*
2007-07-05 05:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by autumnleaves 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
MY gramps is 98 tomorrow. He doesn't pray for death, but he is starting to finally feel tired of life.
The two questions aren't really related to each other. Most eldery these days don't live with their children, nor do they expect financial support from their children - and a lot never hear from their children either. So while a child might consider contacting that parent a burden, they are not actually a burden at all.
I've known some very ill people that have prayed for death - but age there was irrelevant - one was a late teen, the other just 61. Both got their prayers answered.
2007-07-05 05:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't know any senior citizen that prays for death. If you do then it is because their children make them feel like a burden. Sad but true.
No one likes to feel like a burden. A very old person needs just as much love, friendship, and feel valued as any human being at any age..
2007-07-05 21:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by michelebaruch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose some might. Personally I don't. Why would anyone do that, unless they were terminally ill?
I don't think I'm a burden on my children. Sometimes I think they're a burden on me. They have a tendency to think I'm always available and get put out when I say I'm busy and can't go round, or they can't come round.
They also telephone when I'm at a really tricky point in a translation or when I'm watching the final laps of a Formula I race.
I love them dearly, but I do still have my own life.
2007-07-07 23:05:49 · answer #6 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is your problem with the elderly ?
I do not know any Senior Citizens that pray for death, and none see their children as burdens, quite the contrary, they are the rewards of our love and labours of life.
2007-07-07 12:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I work with terminally ill patients, most of whom are elderly. It is rare that I hear them pray for death. The will to live is very strong. People do feel like burdens on their families, a normal feeling when you've both been independent and the person who cared for others all your life.
2007-07-07 01:19:08 · answer #8 · answered by CantGetThereFromHere 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well. I'm speaking in my own experience and humble opinion.
My fiance lives with his nana now. An dit is because she has told him she needs the comapny, but she denies this and tells me she's doing a huge favour for her. Basically she rules his life again, moans when he's late in, locks him out when she feels like it and basically would rather he stayed in and knitted with her than him come and see me, even for the short amount of tme he does.
She makes sure she rifles through all of his stuff, pretending to be cleaning. Monitors him on the phone. And sometimes just blackmails him into staying at home with her. Now I think, well fair enough she needs company. But, he's my fiance!! Why am I not allowed time with him! She's had her husband and love life, now it's my turn#! I would respect her if she would respect us!!!! She just hates him having any contact with anyone else other than herself.
If she ever left the house she could find friends her own age surely? he is doing her a favour and all she can do is abuse that and make his life hell if he tries to do something he wants to do!
So yes until proven otherwise I DO believe they burden their children!
2007-07-08 20:56:53 · answer #9 · answered by UniBeauty 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a senior citizen. I've never prayed for death. It's inevitable, but I dont want it to come any sooner than planned-by God. If I'm a burden to my children-they havent said anything. I go to church with them-to the movies-we go swimming together.
Sometimes they bug me and I'm sure I bug them-but I hope I'm never a burden.
2007-07-07 13:40:39 · answer #10 · answered by techtwosue 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋