Reply #61: Read the passage in Gulliver's Travels about the island of [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

the immortals (Laputa?).

They grow old but can't die.

By the time my grandmother died at the age of 100, not one of her bodily systems functioned properly. She couldn't even swallow without choking. Death finally came for her during an afternoon nap, and while a major figure in our family was gone, there was also a sense of relief, because her last six months or so were pretty miserable.