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This is sad :(
06-14-2011, 01:16 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk...-process-to-end-his-life
Terry Pratchett starts process to take his own life
The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett says he has received consent forms requesting assisted suicide but has not yet signed them
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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Definitely sad. But I don't fault him in the least for wanting to check out while he is still able to make that decision.
-Terry
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Having watched a few of my relatives die of lingering illnesses such as Parkinson's, I do not, in any way, begrudge Sir Terry lining up this particular option.
His illness has the potential to kill him long before his body gives out.
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I saw this very thing happen with my father. Although he had the good fortune to pass away at home among family and not in a nursing home surrounded by strangers, the disease robbed him of both his mind and his dignity. While I have philosophical problems with suicide, I likewise do not begrudge him the right to take his exit at the time of his choosing.
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Damn, that sucks.
Here's hoping the disease holds off on getting bad enough for him to decide to take action. I'm not sure I'd make the same choice (I've thought of writing up an advanced directive that says, "My preference is fight tooth and nail and don't give up until the body gives out," but I'm not facing anything that would hit the body like he's facing), but he's the one facing this so it's his decision not mine.
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