Terminally Ill Woman Brittany Maynard Has Died With Dignity

Started by sbr, November 03, 2014, 02:19:37 AM

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Eddie Teach

Quote from: alfred russel on November 04, 2014, 10:06:30 AM
Did anyone else pick out from the article that her husband is 43 and she is 29?

And her mother is 56 and step father 72.

Brings hope to us all.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Jacob

Quote from: grumbler on November 04, 2014, 10:07:25 AM
I m glad to see that we have so many authorities on death here; people confident enough in their authority that they can not only make sweeping statements that there is no dignity in death, but that people with contrary opinions are lying to themselves.  Languish: beacon of expertise to the world!  If only everyone read languish, silly concepts like "death with dignity"  and classical liberalism would be consigned to the scrap heap of history.

But not strawmen. We'd have lots of those.

Razgovory

Quote from: garbon on November 04, 2014, 12:10:50 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 04, 2014, 12:02:06 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 03, 2014, 11:22:32 PM
Quote from: dps on November 03, 2014, 11:00:32 PM
There's no such thing as death with dignity.

:hmm:

Well he's right.  We lie to ourselves that there is dignity in death, but it's just the transition from being a person to being a thing.

I think it is the transition from being a person to being nothing.

Also, I echo what sbr said.

Well you are still there, you are just a corpse.  At least if you are a materialist.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

grumbler

Quote from: Jacob on November 04, 2014, 01:13:52 PM
But not strawmen. We'd have lots of those.

True.  That's why I didn't add to the population.  :showoff:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Razgovory

Quote from: grumbler on November 04, 2014, 04:36:55 PM
Quote from: Jacob on November 04, 2014, 01:13:52 PM
But not strawmen. We'd have lots of those.

True.  That's why I didn't add to the population.  :showoff:

I think we can all agree that you haven't contributed to the discussion here.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

garbon

Quote from: Razgovory on November 04, 2014, 01:53:46 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 04, 2014, 12:10:50 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 04, 2014, 12:02:06 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 03, 2014, 11:22:32 PM
Quote from: dps on November 03, 2014, 11:00:32 PM
There's no such thing as death with dignity.

:hmm:

Well he's right.  We lie to ourselves that there is dignity in death, but it's just the transition from being a person to being a thing.

I think it is the transition from being a person to being nothing.

Also, I echo what sbr said.

Well you are still there, you are just a corpse.  At least if you are a materialist.

I am not a materialist.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

dps


Scipio

Well, it's sad.

But I've had two more important people in my life die in the past week, so I can't muster up the fucks to give.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt