Your own Mortality - Does it worry you sometimes?

[AndiE]

Yep, definitely. I don't fear my own death, my fear is more about leaving my boys without a mummy, and will they remember me. Of course, by the time I'm six-foot-under my kids will have grandkids of their own ... hopefully I think it's probably part and parcel about being a mummy though - life and death takes on far more significance, if that makes sense. At least, it has done with me.

[Maruschke]

Having miscarriages really slaps you with your own mortality. So yes I do think about it often.

[fionas]

I think about death almost daily but then I always have frequently thought of my own mortality. More often now because of the fear of leaving my children behind - and I think having them made me conscious of the whole life/death cycle.

Death used to petrify me - not the dying part but the not being here part. Now, I'm trying to use it in a positive way and think/do more about what legacy I'll leave behind. Makes me more determined to make the rest of my life worthwhile and focuses my attention on what sort of person I want to be and what goals I want to reach. I want to die a happy woman content that I've done something worthwhile.

[Epacris]

Yep. In fact, right now DH and I are in the middle of re-doing all our finances, including the children’s, updating our wills and spending a ****load of money on income protection, death and TPD and trauma insurance. In the unlikely event that something does happen everything will be in order.

[lilima]

Yes I think about it daily, but mainly when separated from the kids. I also worry about their mortality

[RainbowBrite]

It is something that I occasionally used to think about but it was not until after my XDH died it hit me that I am the only parent my 4 older kids have, if something happened to me they are orphans...that was pretty profound and scared me a bit.
It frightens me to think any of my kids might be brought up without a mother, but I know my 3 younger kids will have there dad.