(4/6) Terry Pratchett Lecture about Alzheimer’s and assisted dying.
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To be frank – when I first ever heard about the concept of “assisted death” (or however else one might call it) – being maybe half as old or younger than I’m now (39) I was only irritated that there actually are people who are opposed to this. This position hasn’t changed at all to this day.
If you suffer from a terminal condition and want to leave it behind in a dignified way – who am I to deny this?
The people who do so should – in my opinion – be ashamed.
He pronounce Oregon correctly, excellent
Still in tears – no matter. The first public double ‘suicides’ I remember were those of Arthur Koestler and his wife.
The press wouldn’t call it for what it was – the decision made rationally by both Koestler and his wife.
They killed themselves in their London flat. Koestler had cancer, inoperable, miserable.
I had been an admirer of him for several years after I read The Ghost in The Machine.
He made me think and I am glad for that. I am glad he made his decision about his death.