Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Is my beech tree doomed?, 1 by Sofi

Sofi wrote:
VV thank you for your reply. I do appreciate your frankness.

I was not clear in my original post, but the oak tree used to be so close to the beech that they almost looked fused together.

I had the tree trimmer here last month to take away a broken limb from another tree. I guess if he were greedy he would have suggested that the beech come down right there and then. He told me that the tree could live for many years the way it was. We did, however, measure and if the tree were to fall down tomorrow it would not reach the house.

The neighborhood is about twenty years old and was originally forest, mostly oaks, beeches, and hornbeams with some native holly too. Our particular lot is one of the few where the trees were not all cut down, and the back yard where the beech is located was never graded. We have not lost any trees in the ten years we have been here. Yet.

This last picture shows the whole tree. (By the way, that is a bird feeder suspended on the right.)

Levilyla I hope your beeches stand for many more years in spite of their wounds.

Thank you both for responding. I feel guilty for being neglectful of a tree that needed attention.
In your opinion should the tree be taken down or left to die a slow death?