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I would disagree. Those are just song lyrics. I don't think freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose - maybe broke or destitute or insolvent are just another word for nothing left to lose but freedom has a completely different meaning to me.
You should take a step back and reconsider. You will learn sooner or later that the things you value will change. In particular, when you reach a point of realizing that things are not nearly so important as you once thought but the life you leave the children behind you is, your outlook will change. The realization one day that your time is running out will expedite this. It is in its way a very liberating thing to be at peace with death in the realization it is near even in the best of reasonable cases. At that point you will find that not much really matters other than your children and/or grandchildren, and that you can die just as happy taking care of the business necessary to protect them as you can in bed.