1. What do you personally believe happens after you die?
For all of us this is a guess, but for me, I will go down the conveyor belt into the crematorium and end up as dust in an urn or someone else to determine what to do with me.
2. You are given insight in to how you die. What kills you and how does it do so?
A violent coughing hack. I say this all the time. I have a very clumsy uvula at the back of my mouth and out of the blue it will become entangled with itself and cause me to choke and cough.
3. What was actually better “back then” and isn’t just nostalgia?
Candy bar and soda. None of that high fructose syrup stuff and for candy bars they used to be actually a little bit bigger.
4. What has actually gotten BETTER over time?
Coffee and maybe even food culture in general. I have a couple of crappy cookbooks from thee 60s and 70s and the crap they are trying to get folks to cook is astounding. What was deal with Jello molds and gelatin salads stuffed with cabbage and fruitastic blood sugar alert concoctions being presented as a salad instead a desert?
5. What is your best money saving tip?
Get the cremation (see number one above.) It is cheaper than the tin box and a cemetary plot.
1) All is unknown. Pragmatically speaking, this life is our life to live and then die, with nothing after. All the world’s religions have an afterlife of some kind that is always better. I suppose if I live my life to the best of being a good person that I can, one of the religions will pick me up after I die.
2) Some latent PTSD comes back in spurts and coughs with flashes of me ending in a violent crash involving some sort of vehicle.
3) Electronic manufacturing. I am not talking technology maturaity here, more that electronics of old held up and were not throw away like today. I still have my first CD player, which is a Realistic (Radio Shack private label). Bought it in 1988, belt driven (replaced twice), lent out for many years to a relative then given back, still working.
4) Cars. I worked on many of my cars over the years, and have had to work much less on them today than yesteryears. Maybe because I can afford better cars and I pay someone else to work on them.
5) Use power of the internet to find the best, lowest priced product out there, rather than settle for convenient around the corner mass retailer who pumps up the price because you will pay it.