Too Long/ Too Short

My husband's aunt is almost 95 years old.  Lately she has begun to say she has lived too long.  Mind you, she is passable health, lives in a nice assisted living facility, gets visited and taken out to lunch on a fairly regular basis....but she's done.  This brings to mind the issue of life being far too short for some, yet too long for others.  I have frequently said or thought that anyone living a reasonably decent live until 85 has done pretty well, and we probably shouldn't think of it as a life cut short.  But who is to judge in some cases?  It's easy to realize if  life was much too short for a child or young adult.  But when is enough enough? My own mother died at age 58, much too young, suddenly and totally unexpected.  Her earlier life was spent raising 6 children (along with other weighty issues), so when death took her when she had begun to be free of many of those issues, it was so unfair.....not enough "quality time," as they call it. In some ways it's too bad  our years of life were a little like a bank account.  If you had enough, or the quality was minimal, with little or no hope for improvement, wouldn't it be nice it we could donate those extra years to someone else whose life was cut short?  I know there's a saying " It's not how many breaths you take, it's the ones that take your breath away that matter." I guess the lesson is to try to be the person you want to be, and do the things you want to do while you can.  What would your obituary read like? (subject of a sermon recently given by my minister)  Are you content with what it would say? If not, start thinking about what you would like it to say and make some of it happen.