represent death to me, so I stay away from them.
My mother, God rest her, was the most ambitious
little lady! She always said that she was too busy
to die and death would have to make an appointment with her! She couldn’t sit home and wait
for him. My mother worked, believe it or not, she
was a certified caregiver and she went to the hospital and had two little retarded children that she
would feed. She was living alone and on the day
she died, she came home from the hospital by bus
and went in and made something to eat and just
died. Like me, she never had any surgery, she was
on no medication, and she just died. I’ll probably
do the same thing.”
“My grandmother, my father’s mother, died when
she wanted to. She said she had done everything
she wanted to, she’d been everyplace she wanted
to go and now she was going to die. She got in the
bed and she said, (and this is the truth), ‘I don’t
want you yelling and screaming over me and don’t
call any doctor because I am not sick, I am just
going to die.’ And she folded her arms and took a
deep breath and died! She was 97.”
these hurricanes and what have you? Who’s in
charge of all this if there is no supreme power? I
feel like it has to go full circle and something like
Noah’s Ark has to happen again.”
Birdie believes that the future of America obviously lies in the hands of today’s parents and in
the strength of our families. “There’s no family.
People don’t regard their family. Charity belongs
at home. It is a sin. Really. I mean if papa and
mama don’t do right, how can you expect children
to do right?” She goes on to say about the parents
that do not monitor their children’s activities
properly either in or out of the house, “Where are
the parents of all the children being stolen and
molested? And these young people 14 and 15
years old, what are they doing out at such crazy
hours? Where are their mothers and fathers? I
don’t remember any time not coming home and
my mother wasn’t there. I always say, and I mean
it, no one has had or will have better parents than
I had.
have no moral