RIP Thread - Raise a glass to those who have passed
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Re: Raise a Glass
Well, I couldn't carry a pistol about with me, as I would too often be tempted to use it on other people.
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You are one cruel drunken wench, I like that.Savage wrote:Well, I couldn't carry a pistol about with me, as I would too often be tempted to use it on other people.
Re: Raise a Glass
Ummm. Yikes.Savage wrote:Well, I couldn't carry a pistol about with me, as I would too often be tempted to use it on other people.
Re: Raise a Glass
People who refuse to commit suicide should be killed.
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"This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. "BigDog49 wrote:"My definition of being trapped revolves around the thought of being unable to take my own life any time I wanted or needed."
-Hunter S. Thompson
-Jack Kevorkian
His cause was not only the right to die for the terminally ill, but for people like Mr. Thompson too. I can imagine a time when I might want to end my own life, and I should be able to. Only Religious institutions and governments take your rights to live and die out of your own hands.
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[quote="His cause was not only the right to die for the terminally ill, but for people like Mr. Thompson too. I can imagine a time when I might want to end my own life, and I should be able to. Only Religious institutions and governments take your rights to live and die out of your own hands.[/quote]
Agreed.
But anyone short of being paralyzed can do it alone or with just a little help from hospice; Jack and his van and his I.V. drip apparatus was a little over the line of twisted obsession. He was more into seeing people die than being the protector of individual rights than he or the media or the movies made out. I've had this aguement with loved ones and now with my online loved ones, and it's a small distinction but important as I don't want to hang on at the end running up bills for my family, either.
And don't get me started on his lawyers...
Question is, how would you end it all?
Agreed.
But anyone short of being paralyzed can do it alone or with just a little help from hospice; Jack and his van and his I.V. drip apparatus was a little over the line of twisted obsession. He was more into seeing people die than being the protector of individual rights than he or the media or the movies made out. I've had this aguement with loved ones and now with my online loved ones, and it's a small distinction but important as I don't want to hang on at the end running up bills for my family, either.
And don't get me started on his lawyers...
Question is, how would you end it all?
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Yeppers. And people who kill should be forced to commit suicide. (I'm talking to you, Death Row inmates. )Steve wrote:People who refuse to commit suicide should be killed.
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I intend to hang on for dear life and suffer to the bitter, painful end, but I still agree with kevorkian's cause. Irony. I actually agree with you that there's a creepy edge to what he did. He did something very radical which is to question americas 'life=good, death=good' paradigm. I think he was the right person at the right time to raise the issue, and improved hospice care is due in part to his making such a scene.Smatter Noguts wrote: Agreed.
But anyone short of being paralyzed can do it alone or with just a little help from hospice; Jack and his van and his I.V. drip apparatus was a little over the line of twisted obsession. He was more into seeing people die than being the protector of individual rights than he or the media or the movies made out. I've had this aguement with loved ones and now with my online loved ones, and it's a small distinction but important as I don't want to hang on at the end running up bills for my family, either.
And don't get me started on his lawyers...
Question is, how would you end it all?
"S0briety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes." -William James
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That's inhumane, talking about that Death Row folks should be pitted against each other in deathmatches. That'd be some quality entertaimentSavage wrote:Yeppers. And people who kill should be forced to commit suicide. (I'm talking to you, Death Row inmates. )Steve wrote:People who refuse to commit suicide should be killed.
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I'd totally pay to watch that.Bur wrote:That's inhumane, talking about that Death Row folks should be pitted against each other in deathmatches. That'd be some quality entertaimentSavage wrote:Yeppers. And people who kill should be forced to commit suicide. (I'm talking to you, Death Row inmates. )Steve wrote:People who refuse to commit suicide should be killed.
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The Running Man.Bur wrote:That's inhumane, talking about that Death Row folks should be pitted against each other in deathmatches. That'd be some quality entertaiment
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Death row death matches? Oh no. I prefer my righteous deaths to be clean, quick, and over before the cocktail hour.
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Drink one for Amy Winehouse.
She has fulfilled her destiny.
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She's dead?
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But if he came in here tonight, I'd drink him under the table -Ronny Elliott
RIP Mayhem, as long as I have a heart you are in it.
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yep. that, along with the nfl talks, trumped the tragedy in norway on most news networks. guess she just wasn't built for drinkin'. had a great voice though.Oggar wrote:She's dead?
why is my moral compass always pointed east? that's the direction of the nearest liquor store.