Fidel Castro says was at death's door, now better

He's not Dead yet !

He's Getting Better !

What is it with Communists as they get old ?

Must just be that whole Communist thing that deteriorates their Fragile Minds !


(Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro told an interviewer there were times during his long illness when he was at death's door but now he is mostly recovered and trying to avert nuclear war.

Castro, 84, told Mexico's La Jornada in an interview published on Monday that he was in such bad shape after falling ill four years ago that he no longer "aspired to live, much less anything else."

He said he asked himself "if those people (doctors) were going to let me live in those conditions or if they were going to let me die.

"Then I survived but in very bad physical condition," said Castro, who underwent emergency surgery in July 2006 for a still-undisclosed intestinal illness, and then endured several following operations.