Do you have a ‘gut feeling’ about what will end your life?

[Findmebythesea1]

Been inspired by another thread, & whilst it’s not a particularly joyous subject I wonder if other people feel the same?

I feel pretty certain, that I will die of heart complications one day. (Family history + irregular (but apparently harmless) heart beat. Do you feel like you have a ‘weak link’ or a predisposition to a certain illness?

Looking back to my teens/20s I truly believed I’d live to 100! I felt great. But now… I’m not so sure! AIBU and a bit mental?! Or do you feel the same?

Honestly, if I could press a button and make it so I'd never existed I'd be gone already. On which basis I suspect if my DH goes first I won't be far behind, as thoughts of what it would do to him have stayed my hand previously. Morbid, but true.

I tend to think dementia with pneumonia will be my demise but I expect it could equally be stoke, heart attack or being hit by a deliveroo bike.

My mum was convinced she'd had a premonition of her old age and her death. She died suddenly at 56, so she was wrong.

@Kathy34 interesting. Where were you shot?

@Zone2NorthLondon @Findmebythesea1 sorry, I am ok. Just really blunt and matter of fact about it nowadays.
I am doing my best, and that is all I can do.

@RaininSummer it was very precise.. until it wasn’t 😂

Yes I’ve always felt as if I would choke on something or severe ahstma attack on a respiratory ward

@XenoBitch im really sorry. I think mental health is 100x worse than physical in lots of ways, at least with physical there is treatment or there is not. With mental health it’s much more of a grey area.

Another one with stage 4 bowel cancer here. I’m only in my 40’s, no family history & never thought I would get cancer. I know no one expects it but it really compounded the shock having not had experience in the immediate or extended family. I now realise how rare that is. Before cancer I didn’t give much thought to dying.

I think I am going to fall down stairs. I don’t know why, I’ve just always had that feeling.

Middle of the neck. Funny thing is that's the only birthmark I had anywere when I was born

Same as you OP - heart - both parents have a genetic disposition that means we build up plaque - nothing I can do about it (but not on statins yet at 54). Dad has had a triple bypass at 75, Mum (very fit and active and healthy) had a heart attack at 67 and now, at 78 is in heat failure with COPD (although she refuses to accept this and cycles 20+ miles 3 times a week!). It will get me in the end but I aim to reach 90 (or 98 like my great grandmother) if I can!

No need to explain at all @XenoBitch . Just acknowledging your post f checking in

My mam's mam & dad's dad died of cancer. Any my uncle & cousin. None of them had bowel cancer.

I’ve never thought about my death, too busy sorting out every day shit. All anyone can hope for is quick and painless.

@Kathy34 quite an unusual place to have a birth mark to? Spooky!

Like OP I have heart rhythm problems and a leaking mitral valve. I guess heart failure will kick in at some point. No history jn my family ... goodness knows why I have this problem ...

Much love to those living with cancer - I'm sorry if my post was trite

Dementia if I die old (plenty of Centurions or almost in my immediate family) or cancer if I die young (plenty of that too sadly).

I have always been convinced I will die in a car accident. No idea why, weirdly I drive a lot and have driven all over Europe. Just never been able the shake the idea

I think it will be heart related. I smoked for far too many years, and no history of cancer in my family.

I don't really have a feeling but someone I worked with said she has had a strong feeling since quite young that she will be murdered.

I've always thought, from a very young age, that I would die from suicide. So far it hasn't come to that stage.

I thought I’d live forever but middle age and ageing has taken me by surprise.

My overriding fear is dying of pancreatic cancer like my father. It was a terrible time, the damage it wrought on his body was heartbreaking. His mum also died of cancer.

@GoofyGoldie ❤️