Posted on 10/29/2014 11:23:23 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
I hate people who can’t follow through with their commitments.
Not sure if I hate procrastinators more...
Makes me think of that Bill Murray bit as a condemned prisoner having his last meal, etc. He had an encyclopedia out and when they came for him he said, “Just let me finish this one article, it’s really interesting.”
It’s the attention-seeking (and getting from a pop magazine) that bothers me. I pray she gives her life and her death over to God.
She’s like Jim Jones; Jones was encouraging people to die with dignity and drink cyanide laced koolaide, but didn’t have the guts to die the same way, he shot his wife and then himself. This woman is encouraging people to kill themselves medically and encouraging the practice among doctors, but apparently doesn’t have the guts to do it herself.
Right; the cover of PEOPLE, making herself into some sort of icon, things like that.
While you’re at it, why don’t you just hate everybody? That seems to be the size of it.
And then she thinks about it all, very deeply, very privately. “All this new fame and close attention, why it’s practically rejuvenating! Gives one a new lease on life. Yes indeed. I might as well stay a while longer and enjoy all the wining and the dining and the personal tributes to me. But how long can this last if my health stablizes?
I know, I’ll write a book called ‘Epiphany!’The Moment I Decided to Live, followed in two years (after a whirlwind book tour) by a sequel, entitled, ‘Sudden Relapse! When All Really Is Lost, As Was Predicted in The First Place.”
What?
She’s a quitter....
That’s the way I see it.
She wanted her 15 minutes and now she’s pushing for 5 more.
Getting high on self gratification and preying on everyone to get her validation and now, it seems, relevancy.
That’s a real stretch. It’s an obscene comparison, really. Jim Jones had those people in his grasp, he was a twisted evil tyrant. This woman is dying of cancer and looking for a way out.
ROTFLMAO!
I remember that.
And I'm thankful for myself and my family that I'm not (yet) in her shoes.
I wonder if she has Munchhausen syndrome, finding validation in being sick and making much of herself. I believe that the media and editors at PEOPLE are feeling like fools.
I agree.
If only she hadn’t promoted death.
She’s not quitting, she’s been fired. Don’t you see the paradox? She doesn’t want to die, so she wanted to “cheat death”. When it came down to it, it didn’t really work out, as an objective observer might have predicted. Perhaps we may be allowed some amusement.
She’s eager to take others with her, aggressively promoting the ‘right’ of people to be euthanized. She’s eager to see this kind of thing expanded to other states.
Yet, she’s not doing it herself, setting the vaunted example.
I wonder how readers and the pro-euthanasia crowed will take this.
Poor girl. Such a sad story. Hope she can gain more strength
in her final days. I will pray for a miracle.
Well then, there you are. A convert. Nothing like a convert.
I always think of Keats, who died at age 26, leaving an immortal legacy.
From Wikipedia:
"Keats raves till I am in a complete tremble for him[64]...about four, the approaches of death came on. [Keats said] 'Severn—I—lift me up—I am dying—I shall die easy; don't be frightened—be firm, and thank God it has come.' I lifted him up in my arms. The phlegm seem'd boiling in his throat, and increased until eleven, when he gradually sank into death, so quiet, that I still thought he slept."[65]
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