Hmm...
I'll tell you, Joe, even my Black sense of Humor isn't chuckling over
this one. There are some protests, serious or frivolous, that hit my
sense of futility so hard that it takes all the "funny" out of me.
I can better understand a person feeling that their life is so
hopeless that they pour gasoline on themselves and light a match. Now
understand me, I know that the obituary was an attempt at relieving
the deep sadness felt when their loved one died. But just the thought
of throwing my life away over the likes of Clinton and Trump? It
gives me severe gas...thank goodness I'm alone in the office today.
I suppose that between my own nature and the fact that I've never been
so trapped that I could not find wiggle room to start over, that is
why I can't relate to suicide. But after saying that, I could foresee
a day when pain and suffering and the end of life gave me only the
choice of suffering or taking pills.
Given those two choices, I would most probably find relief in the
pills. But if I'd just swallowed them and the doctor charged into the
room yelling, "We have a cure!" I would holler, "Somebody bring the
stomach pump, quick!"
If I were writing my own obit, I'd probably say something like,
"Somehow I thought I'd live forever."
Carl Jarvis
On 5/20/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Obit: Woman chose death over voting in general election Associated Press
Richmond, Va. A Virginia woman's obituary says she chose death over voting
in the
upcoming presidential election. The obituary published by the Richmond
Times-Dispatch and on a funeral home's website reads, "Faced with the
prospect of
voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Mary Anne Noland of
Richmond chose, instead, to pass into the eternal love of God. Her husband,
Jim
Noland, tells WWBT-TV that she died at 68 on Sunday following a long battle
with lung cancer. He says one of her sons wrote the obituary's opening line
as a joke and as a way for her children to carry on her sense of humor.
Political comments have popped up in a number of obituaries nationwide this
election
season, with families using them to urge readers to vote for or against
certain candidates. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved.
