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I have just finished reading the above posts as this is new to me. Having the will to live? Do we actually have control over that short of suicide? I am very old. 89 to be exact. My husband died 2-1/2 years ago. We were together for 62 years, 59 of them married. It has been a terrible blow to me and I don't know if I will ever get over it. Yet here I am still living and living independently. I gave a solemn vow to my oldest son that I would not do away with myself and I will not. But really down deep I have no more will to live without my husband beside me. But I still wake up every morning. I am in relatively good shape and do not take a bunch of drugs and have no pain. Except for my age I am just like everyone else. I take care of myself; I cook for myself; I get in the car and drive myself wherever I have to go. I do not feel like I am 89. It almost feels like my age is an accident. But there it is.
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Well, good for you. My father was 96 and in good health aside from having been blinded by the VA and a laser mishap. When his 92-year-old wife was no longer able to assist him, they begged him to go into a home. He had resisted that for more than a couple years. So he phil, went in the hospital, they talked him into it, he agreed to go to a home. He went to sleep that night and never woke up. That is the way to go.