Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

[ashok]

unless one is predisposde to a certain frame of mind
(a certain situation,
which leads to suicide), or one has a timebound terminal
illness -- it is 
very hard to talk about the right time to shuffle
off this mortal coil.

i enjoy travelling, and sometimes, to get a real feel
of things, its neccessary
to cut a few corners in terms of how you travel (e.g:
a rickety bus with bald
tires, and a driver on amphetamines...), and where
you travel to(e.g: a place
without proper roads, or poor security...).  what
i am always aware of is
the 'death by casual accident' (e.g: bus washed away
by flash flood / pillaging 
bandits attack inconsequential village.....etc...).
 

(the casual accident scenario is true for everyone
in varying degrees....)

on the plus side, once you are aware that a casual
accident can end things in 
a snap, it makes you want to see and do things that
you would not have normally 
done, and it can open your eyes.  even if you
are scared , you tend to not 
worry about the consequences.....

>  
> Huh....except for Deepak, not ONE of you has
said at what age YOU 
> would like to die! Would you like to  die voluntarily when disease

> or infirmities catch up? Would you like to go voluntarily when still
> in full possession of your faculties?...............


remindful of a time when the transport minister of
uganda declared that
saying 'domestic airlines' was wrong, it had to be
officially called 
'within country airlines'....that was even *before*
they had a domestic
airline carrier....

> I found a very interesting headline in the Deccan
Herald today, "XYZ
> kills self"...that's an unusual  way of saying someone committed

> suicide......how did the staffer get that past the edit?
>  
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