My son and his wife are part of a group bringing a Disc World convention to Madison. They’re going to be really bummed.
Ping to your pro-life list.
This should be an interesting discussion...
Sorry if that sounds cold, but I wonder sometimes about the whole motivation for this "assisted" suicide business. I'd prefer compassionate end-of-life care over suicide. But having someone else "help you" seems, well, kind of cowardly, to be honest.
>>Very sad. Terry Pratchett has given as much reading pleasure as any author I can think of, with the possible exception of Robert A. Heinlein.<<
Let us not forget the Good Doctor (Asimov).
I need to go back and reread the Discworld books. It has been a while...
It is extremely sad. I will repeat the words of my then 6th grade son. As we passed by an abortion clinic every morning and saw a man praying every day, my son asked “Mom why is that man there every day?” I explained that he is praying for babies whose mom’s decide not to let them be born. I went on to tell him that my view and the belief of our religion is that it is considered killing. He turned around without a blink and said “It is also stealing from God”. My eyes filled with tears from the proudness that I felt from my 6th grade boy. How come the youth can comprehend but the so-called more mature can not. Our lives belong to God not us.
Suicide is a sin.
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Terry Pratchett’s life belongs to him and his God. His life doesn’t belong to the state, the church or busybodies on FR.
I think that those of us who know his work know that any decision Pratchett makes will be wise.
I love all of his books. When he dies however it comes it will be a great loss.
Maybe he’ll forget about it and bring joy to his family in his last days.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I loved the Discworld books.
But not anymore.
Tragic personal ping.
I am enormously sad and horrified about this. Only a
rather casual fan, but still. What can a mere reader
do to ask him “don’t do this”?
Your predecessor, H. Beam Piper, had the "guts" (if that's the right word) to blow his own head off with a rifle.
Why must you drag other folks in to your pathology? If "Goodbye, Cruel World" really is all you have left to say, do the deed yourself.
Either way, don't expect the eternal results to be good. Methinks your Creator doesn't approve His creatures offing themselves.
Godspeed, Mr. Pratchett, godspeed.
Would that I can find your courage at the end.
Paperwork to kill yourself? I can't tell you how many times paperwork of all kinds nearly drove me to suicide!