In the movie Beaches, Bette Midler was with Barbara Hershey to the end. Barbara was lying on a chaise-lounge on the beach wearing an oxygen mask, because she was dying of congestive heart failure from cardiomyopathy (enlarged, weakened heart).
The audience heard Bette singing “Wind beneath My Wings,” and I’m sorry, but I cry every single time I see that scene! Water fountains burst from my eyes, and I can hardly breathe. I’m worse than Tammy Faye Baker.
But you know what? That’s how I want to die. I want to be a famous, world-altering professor and writer, on the beach typing my last article on my laptop. Just before I take my last breath, I will hit “send” to my unending world audience, and then Bette Midler will croon out, “A beautiful smile to hide the pain!” Yep, that's how I want to go.
Will I die from congestive heart failure? cancer? or just melancholia?
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