WAYS TO GO...

Our muse to the aged  Medical Correspondent`s `article` yesterday about the wellbeing of the elderly population got me thinking about what options might be available for ways to leave this world.  What also jogged my consciousness was a most unfortunate incident that occurred at St. Mary`s Stadium last Saturday.   Following Saints` narrow 1-0 win over Carlisle United, an elderly 85-year old Saints fan collapsed and died in the gentlemen`s toilet after the game.

 Now, I like other Saints fans was saddened to learn of this tragedy but, without in any way wishing to appear `indelicate,` the gentleman in question was able to depart in one of the three ways that I might find acceptable .  Being called to the great stadium in the sky in such a manner would, for me, be one of them, especially after a home win.  The second would be having just birdied the notoriously difficult par 3 sixth at Hever Castle`s Princes Golf Course (actually parring it would be ok - even a bogey might do.)   And the third would be to wave goodbye having been on the nest - an option which nowadays seems less and less likely now that the law of diminishing possibility has kicked in.

But there you go.   I do genuinely sympathise with the Saints fan`s friends and family but I wonder if he might not be looking down, smiling benignly and thinking that the nature of his departure could have been so much less memorable than it was.