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At death's window (Anne Lamott kills a good friend)
Los Angeles Times ^
| June 25, 2006
| Anne Lamott
Posted on 06/29/2006 10:14:07 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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Lamott writes of "the trauma, sorrow and bittersweet love that come with helping a friend to end his life."
Astounding when a confession to murder in an op-ed has no legal consequences. And just when the California Legislature is debating legislation on physician-assisted suicide.
All that plus she aborted two babies --- wrote of it, talks about it, defends it vehemently, wildly, ferociously --- and believes it ALL to be copacetic with Jesus Christ Our Lord.
I've read her books, attentively. I like --- most of the time --- her mind.
Her mind? Maybe she's already out of her mind, I don't know. Writes well, though, doesn't she, with her compassionate killer mind? I fear for her bodily well-being. I fear very much for her soul.
To: Mrs. Don-o
In your own mind you can justify ANYTHING if you try hard enough, even MURDER!
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:19:02 AM PDT
by
teletech
(Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
To: Salvation; neverdem; NYer; wagglebee; little jeremiah
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:19:45 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Someone stop this train...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Must be talking about another Jesus that we haven't heard of....
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:21:35 AM PDT
by
Brucifer
(JF'n Kerry- "That's not just a paper cut, it's a Purple Heart!")
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:23:17 AM PDT
by
Brucifer
(JF'n Kerry- "That's not just a paper cut, it's a Purple Heart!")
To: Mrs. Don-o
LA Slimes using the power of suggestion to numb the non-thinkers into accepting the murder of the ill or elderly.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:23:22 AM PDT
by
BikerGold
(Woman Love Men With BIG Pickups As We Can Haul Home Bigger Furniture)
To: Mrs. Don-o
It seems that people like this have already been reprobated. They become more and more spiritually disfigured with time.
To: don-o
The original article at LA Times is well worth reading. She has a tender, affectionate, sensitive and apparently lifelong attraction for solving problems via (others') death.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:24:55 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(A kind of idiot arithmetic, consisting solely of subtraction.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
I figured any man in an alley at that time of death was suicidal so I shot him. I took his wallet to compensate myself for the bullet.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:27:19 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: All
Can't stand Lamott as a writer.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:31:18 AM PDT
by
proust
To: Mrs. Don-o
I doubt she can be prosecuted because I doubt that this ever happened. If there's an inquiry, she'll admit it was not a confession, but just her opinion.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:32:24 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:32:26 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: Mrs. Don-o
Is this for real or another piece of fiction?
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:44:50 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
If I should so choose, I hope I'll have one or two friends who will stand by me in the same way.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:45:11 AM PDT
by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros at the end.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Her book on writing, "Bird By Bird" is quite good. I skipped her book on her faith because it had the look of one of those buffet-Christian books: I'll take that, but skip this, thanks.
Yet, if my wife were suffering terribly with terminal cancer and I could not get her relief from pain (all big ifs, for sure), I would consider helping her end it. I'd take my chances at the Judgement for that one.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:46:49 AM PDT
by
Taliesan
To: Mrs. Don-o
I like helping when someone wants to commit assisted suicide.
I mean, okay, maybe they are in their 20's... and healthy.... and maybe they may not want to commit assisted suicide... and yeah, maybe I have to handcuff them and gag them to stop them from running or calling for authorities.....
..... but I still like to help.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:49:21 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999 !!!)
To: M. Dodge Thomas
If I should so choose, I hope I'll have one or two friends who will stand by me in the same way.I stand ready with a chainsaw and a wood chipper!
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:50:12 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999 !!!)
To: AppyPappy
Not to seem that I agree with assisted suicide, but your analogy is just stupid. Did they guy in the alley ask you to kill him, or did you just do it on your own hook? Therein lies the difference between your idiotic statement and assisted suicide. A person who asks to be killed is not some innocent bystander in an alley but a suffering idividual who wants the pain and suffering to end.
Comparing the two, no matter what your opinions on assisted suicide is just dumb, especially the statement about taking the wallet.
For me, I believe it is wrong to kill someone, period, but I do not believe it is wrong for a very ill person to take their own life, when all is hopeless. I do not believe anyone should get a pass, including doctors, for helping them however. This will eventually lead to people being killed simply to free up hospital beds or to save money, it is already trending that way in some countries.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:51:44 AM PDT
by
calex59
(The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
To: AppyPappy
I figured any man in an alley at that time of death was suicidal so I shot him. I took his wallet to compensate myself for the bullet.And I was glad to serve as your extra eyes (read: Lookout) and extra legs (read: Getaway driver).
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:51:52 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999 !!!)
To: calex59
Did they guy in the alley ask you to kill him?Most of the people I kill, don't.
A few actually plead for their lives.
But they are too sick to know they really need to die.
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:53:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999 !!!)
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