{"id":161417,"date":"2023-04-01T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ageing-and-the-mortality-alarm-i-started-panicking-about-future-me"},"modified":"2023-04-01T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T23:22:20","slug":"ageing-and-the-mortality-alarm-i-started-panicking-about-future-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/ageing-and-the-mortality-alarm-i-started-panicking-about-future-me","title":{"rendered":"Ageing and the mortality alarm: \u2018I started panicking about future me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ageing-and-the-mortality-alarm-i-started-panicking-about-future-me.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>y mum was due to celebrate a century of life and looking forward to getting her card from the Queen. She\u2019d been living in an aged-care facility which had been through multiple lockdowns due to Covid. Our family started preparations for her birthday party; \u201chold the date\u201d cards were sent.<\/p>\n<p>On Mum\u2019s behalf, we applied to receive the birthday card from the Queen. But early one night, after another lockdown, my dad rang. \u201cI don\u2019t think she\u2019ll make it to the weekend,\u201d he said. \u201cCome quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, she hung on for another 18 days. The palliative nurse explained to my family that this was a time of being, rather than doing. We tried to make Mum feel loved, comfortable and with as little pain as possible as her body prepared to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mum was due to celebrate a century of life and looking forward to getting her card from the Queen. She\u2019d been living in an aged-care facility which had been through multiple lockdowns due to Covid. Our family started preparations for her birthday party; \u201chold the date\u201d cards were sent. On Mum\u2019s behalf, we applied [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}