Posted on 07/13/2022 7:07:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mark Fleischman, the owner of legendary Midtown nightclub Studio 54, died by assisted suicide in Switzerland, a report said. He was 82.
Fleischman was unable to walk and his speech was impaired after getting sick in 2016. Doctors couldn’t diagnose his condition.
“I can’t walk, my speech is f–ked up, and I can’t do anything for myself,” he told The Post last month.
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Sad. RIP.
Don’t know much about the guy but thats too bad the end of his life was so bad that he felt the need to off himself. He ran studio 54, so living to the age of 82 was probably decades longer than anyone expected.
He passed just like my Chihuahua Roxy. But more expensive I suspect.
He’s 82. The oldest baby boomer is 77-a bit too young to think of going out that way. He knew it was time and a great bunch of us will know soon enough. Why fly to Switzerland? It will be the next big issue here. It should not be up to God. If someone wants to off themselves in the prime of life it’s up to them. In an 82 year-olds case the government will have an interest in getting these people out of the way. Slippery slope? When one stops eating and enjoying life they’ll know it’s time.
Drugs in old folks homes should be legal. Ecstasy would work.
studio 54 was owned by The crime family
This is one of my obsessions
Studio 54 & The Mafia: Club Owner’s Dad Was Major Player In Brooklyn Mob Rackets
https://gangsterreport.com/studio-54-the-mob-owners-dad-was-major-player-in-brooklyn-rackets/
BTW you might look up Why the NYPD kept raiding The Stonewall. Had Nothing to go with the people who went there.
He became the owner in 1980 or 1981. When was Studio 54’s heyday? The 70s or the 80s?
Opus?
Everything is up to God. Go insult God on some Democratic Party forum, please.
It closed in early 1980 Tax evasion or some such.
70’s- not even close
Not every conservative is a Christian and there are many Christian democrats. FR used to have Darwin threads, plenty of Atheists. This attempt to cram all conservatives in one small crate is ridiculous and scary.
Not everyone believes in God - and even some who do (though perhaps not of your particular faith) believe that they should have the right to make a self-chosen exit when facing a terminal diagnosis and unbearable pain.
I admit that it’s a very ‘slippery slope’ to codify something like this; but I’m not going to judge someone very old and very ill for taking that way out.
That’s an argument from the left.
That’s ok. I’ve been called worse, here.
But who are you to dictate that someone else should choose to manage their severe illness as YOU see fit?
It seems to me that leftist governments all over the world want to do that - so I guess that makes YOU a lefty, too.
You bet it is. When society embraces “the right to die”, it will inevitably become “the obligation to die” After that, we’re into Soylent Green territory.
That’s an argument from the anarchist left.
Nations have laws for a reason. Institute good laws, things go well with the nation; institute bad laws, things fall apart—lesson of history. Laws “dictate” if you will; part of the human condition.
And I did not call anyone any names.
Many good men have wished for death. Even prophets in the bible. I cant judge the guy one bit. There are lives that are worse than death. Even my Dad who was the strongest Christian Ive ever known and who harshly criticized people for artificially ending their lifes instead of gasping their last breath. He died from brain tumors and told me that he hoped the soup I was spoon feeding him would be his last meal. A hospice home made him “comfortable” with meds which ultimately did the same thing that this guy did. RIP Dad. You were a good man and a good Father.
He apparently did it in a Nation whose laws allow it.
I fully support assisted suicide. The problem is how do you stop selfish relatives from encouraging someone to pull their own plug? How do you guarantee that the choice is made by free will?
There was a wonderful discussion on hospices that made the point of the financial pressures placed on patients, and how assisted suicide could become affected by that pressure.
So I just don’t know where to come down on the issue. I want sane, rational people to have the choice. I don’t want people to feel it’s the desperate alternative. And I don’t know how to protect those people from inappropriate pressure.
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