I laughed with your post but know you "get it". It will be an interesting time for seniors if their care gets rationed and drugs denied because of cost- the Boomers like to have their way, afterall. While reading of a glob floating along the AK coastline, a side story told of home assistance being shut down in AK and the elderly, stranded, until the system is overhauled- made more efficient. Also a comment in the NYTimes Health Blog from a woman who mentioned being able to get heavy duty drugs to relieve pain- morphine, I think, quite easily in Europe. Maybe we will see the legalization of marijuana- great tax revenue.// I think a conductor losing his wife, hearing and sight has every right to act as he did. Strange abortion is accepted but suicide is not. Probably religions learned to make a big deal of death to rake in more adherants. Judaism does not celebrate martyrdom. Christianity and Islam do.// Well. death is death with corresponding feelings depending on the relationship- from deep loss and sorrow to real sadness over something you read. A moveable grief. Also macabre humor- Waugh- something beloved- forget the title. Think men look for a caregiver more than women as women already know the drill if they have raised a family. Then there is the implicit risk of death in the military and certain occupations which speaks to the larger issue of what is the value given a life in a society?
On Jul 15, 7:59�pm, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > $6,500 per suicide? �Holy Smokes! �I smell a cottage industry here. > Don's Compassionate Solutions Inc. �No waiting and 20% discount on > funeral arrangements. �Also do weddings. > > I use humor to deal with trajedy. �Sorry if that's offensive but the > moribund has always enthralled me. �I've known 2 two people to commit > suicide; one a teen(probably an accident while trying to scare her > mother) and the other a very successful but very depressed middleaged > man. �Both well loved by their families. > > It's always toughest on the survivors. > > dj > > On Jul 15, 2:29�pm, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html > > > With a swoon of Prokofiev! Read the reader comments as well as > > Americans may be waking up to the fraud that is end of life care and a > > national disgrace.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
