Funny everyday jokes: Reflections on Death and Life

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Reflections on Death and Life

Living 72 years has taught this man a lot and his wisdom is shared with us.

ON BEING TIRED

Readers may recall a couple of columns I wrote last year about having cancer, being treated for the disease, and then coming through it with no cancer detected anywhere in my body.

I'll soon have my seventy-second birthday, making me older than both my parents when they died. Except for a couple of sports-related, minor surgeries, I was never in a hospital until I had a partial knee replacement (legacy of sports) at 64. Since then . . . Well, let's just say that, if you live long enough, the body offers ample reminders that it is not immortal.

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