End of Life Fantasy

Disclaimer:  Don't read this unless you can take a joke and are weary with this end of life thing. This post will likely be irreverent to some or most.

Try to imagine if we could engineer our own end of life journey...  I know it's not possible, but still fun to think and dream about, especially after my ten year odyssey with middle of the night fall calls, ER's, perpetual moving, pneumonia, fractures, cardiac arrest, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, ad nauseum....  

My dream is totally preposterous and outrageous...  

What if we could create a new cruise line and call it "Sunset Cruises"?  We'd market it to "end of lifers" like us, in a few years...  What if we could create a business plan such that the 5K+ a month, the going rate for current end of life care, could be traded in for the Penthouse Suite on a luxurious cruise ship? This is so much better than the 5K plus a month we'd be paying for the ASS-isted Living Facility, Long Term Care facility with one person taking care of 12 or 15...  Many of these places smell bad too..

Instead of understaffed facilities, charging us out the wazoo, we'd have our own private 24/7 butler, catering to every possible need, 24 hour room service, housekeeping, entertainment, pool with swim up bar, shipboard doctor, an actual MD a CASINO, gift shops, fitness center, and beauty shop on board.  Oh, and there might even be a grand piano in the Penthouse...  We'd book the ship that's in the Caribbean during winter...  Great weather... Shuffleboard too!

And, if you're in the Penthouse, you get to have dinner with the captain every night.  Whoo Hoo.

 Honestly,  this is the kind of service you receive when you book the Penthouse Suite on a cruise ship   We've never had the pleasure or financial opportunity to occupy such rarefied space, but we've been on enough cruises to know that this is how these people live....  The 5K monthly price point is not unrealistic for such luxury.  

Here's where my thoughts might offend someone.  When you croak with your private butler at your side, wouldn't you rather be tossed overboard and fed to the sharks than forking over thousands more to the funeral home, casket maker and cemetery people?   Just think.  Your burial is totally "green".  You're being recycled as food for the sharks... Maybe there will still be something left for your heirs, if you still like them...

We'd probably need to register the ship in China...Human life, rights, and waste aren't such big deals over there.

Want to book a cruise on "Sunset Cruises"?   Investors anyone? 

I'm an irreverent bad girl trying to make fun of a bad, sad situation....Sleep tight...  Hope you don't get a Fall Call tonight!