Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
I have told my husband the greatest compliment he could pay me, should I die before him, is to remarry quickly. That marriage was a good thing. If I should be in a long term coma or mentally gone because of dementia or the like...I would WANT him to have female companionship.

Life is for the living....and it is very short. I would not want him to be lonely. I trust he could find ways to honor my memory and still find some pleasure in life.
I agree - providing that there is a shrine with a lifesize picture of me above their bed.

OK - so maybe this is the wrong thread for humor, but then again maybe it isn't. A sense of humor is one of the great gifts given to us. Terri "died" years ago. If that was me in her place I would be delighted that my husband was able to find someone (almost) as wonderful as me.

As long as I'm hopelessly digressing - anyone familiar with the movie "Highlander"? - about this guy who finds out he's immortal and will never age... he marries (this is in 16th century Scotland), and he loves his wife very much and she ages and grows old while he is still young but he never leaves her and when she is dying she asks him to remember her and light a candle on her birthday - which he does for the next 400 years - anyway, my point being, she let him go - she wasn't jealous that he was living longer than her - she was only sad that she couldn't be there for the journey. (this scene makes me cry every time I see it)

So, my point being - if he really was the heartless jerk that some want to believe that he is, he could have walked away years ago - but he didn't. Can any of us imagine being saddled with the burden that he has - only to have the president on down try to get him to relinquish his vows?

oh well, I've rambled on enough for one post...