they certainly would never dare publish a G.K. CHesterton Retrospective...
Posted on 10/25/2014 9:34:00 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
I never thought of that possibility of going public to talk herself out of it. Maybe to obtain feedback from other victims of this terrible affliction. Good observation on your part.
It seems further linked to women's desire both to kill themselves and to talk abut it --- suicide as an ongoing theme--- contrasted to men's desire to just get it over with.
I wonder if somebody offered Brittany a TV interview on November 8, if she wouldn't put off her suicide a week...
This is not to malke light of her condition. But it could be like the 1001 nights of Scheherazade: one more reprieve, one more story...
I do hope she listens to the palliative care people. Excellent palliative care would ensure that she lives and dies comfortably, without anyone being implicated in murder or the mainstreaming, fawning, conniving "acceptance" of murder.
The open support for suicide is a result of utilitarian bioethics. Promoting abortion, suicide, assissited suicide, and of what hitler did to the disabled. I believe it also teaches that there is no moral equalivance, right or wrong is what is right or wrong for an individual according to his own ethic. Utilitarian bioethics appear to be popular with obama’s czars, which is no surprise when you go back to the eary Twentieth Century progressives who wanted to rid society of the “eaters”, the older, infirm and mentally incapable who could no longer “contribute” to society, the group hillary clinton says she is inspired by. It is no supprise that many of obama’s czars consider overpopulation to be our top concern including the new ebola czar. I appreciate the efforts of Denis Strangman.
Without those, I will agree with you, suicide is quite logical.
It’s a really terrible way to go too. Lost a friend to it several years ago. At first there was some hope. Word was brain cancer tended to stay put, didn’t spread like cancers below the neck. They cut out the tumor, and chemo rounds were taken. Then they said she was cancer free.
But it came back, they operated again. Then came the seizures, which became more and more frequent until she finally died during one.
She was a fighter, but I have zero doubt given the option she would have opted for doctor assisted suicide that second time.
Beats offing yerself or being an AMA paying guinea pig!
Not every terminal patient can pass through the doors of death in a perfect state of "pain-free, calm and alert." (THOUGH A LOT CAN -- A LOT MORE THAN WE REALIZE.) But everyone can go at least in a state of "no consciousness of pain, no seizures."
Excellent palliative care is,I would say, a right (and ought to be much more available.) Suicide is not. It's just part of the general crime of homicide.
Where’d you get that? And how’d you post it?
I made the banner.
I used the photograph from the cover of a book...on ole G.K. and added to it considerably.
eventually I will add a bunch more quotes.
this is the url for the image file:
http://i.imgur.com/od5E0zx.gif
There's only about 10,000 good Chesterton quotes you could work into that gif!
This is a sad thing and I figuratively weep for our society where a major magazine pushes this.
People magazine’s normal fare of unimportant gossip is bad enough.
Giving cover story sympathetic coverage of this is not right.
ahaha I know.. I know.
his quotes are just what the Dr. Ordered in this day and age.
That’s fantastic!
Well done. Aesthetically and in terms of the message.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
I don’t know what all she was taking at the end. I am quite sure the list included what you’re describing though..
BTW, I would probably prefer it said "Journalist -Theologian - Tobacco Heretic". "Scholar" implies a University background, or at least scholarly publications with footnotes.
I don't know if GK ever in his life bedecked his writings with footnotes --- more like bits of cigar ash and brandy spots --- and he was a college drop-out.
As so many of the good 'uns were and are.
One of the many amazing things about GK is that he WAS a journalist. Most of his writings appeared in newspapers --- something to read today and line your parakeet cage with tomorrow ----hastily written, to be hastily read--- in other words, ephemeral literature. And yet you can still read his stuff 100 years later and say "Here's a guy who 'gets' what's happenin' now."
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Good anti-seizure anti-pain meds for the terminally ill may predictably shorten life expectancy, but that's OK. Suppressing that kind of symptoms is possible, it's legitimate and it's emphatically not suicide.
I frep mailed you the “code” text..which can be copied and pasted tor image posting
the fprum software “sees”...all the html code..posted...so it doesnt post as text
I tested the texts ability to be displayed AS text by freep mailing it to myself
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