"Let me not die, while I am still alive..."
That's powerful stuff. The idea of asking for more time like a kid in a swimming pool - just 5 more minutes!
I hope I do die while I'm still alive though. Dying after I'm done living sounds worse.
I'd rather die while I'm alive (doing or living through something really exciting) than completing something exciting, then entering the dawn of life realizing that I'll never do something as exciting again, and then dying.
I wanna die in the middle of having fun, not in a retirement home.
Anyway our own death is unimportant since we can't experience being dead. Death that matters is the death of others (dear ones). My payer would be: let me die any which way you want... but let me die first.
Yep. And I should try and allow them to do that for themselves.
> you like an easy way out of things, don't you...
I sure do.
I think what that means is "Don't let me be caught up in grief and mourning so much that I become the living dead." Hope that makes sense.
Basically just praying for the strength to carry on and learn from tragedy, rather than to be consumed and defeated by it.