[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:00:38 -0500

Eric: <Anyway, you get the idea.>

Actually, I don't or you don't.  I was not discussing fear of life.  I was
discussing fear of being in Ms. Schiavo's situation, Alzheimer's disease,
loss of dignity, nursing homes which in some respects are like prisons, to
say nothing of bankrupting one's family.  Far from fear of life.  Life is
wonderful.  Until....

Veronica


> [Original Message]
> From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/24/2005 11:52:46 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die
>
> He's recommending the serious contemplation of suicide as a cure
> > for the petty fears that keep us from taking risks.
>
> ck: My thinking exactly, for the past 30 years. Very liberating, though
the 
> fearlessness has often left me open to more adventure than I'd counted
on. 
> Highly recommended as an alternative to the humdrum life, however.
> Carol
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:45 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die
>
>
> > By the way, people might want to look at Walker Percy's _Lost in the
> > Cosmos:the Last Self-Help Book_, which has an excellent section entitled
> > "The Only Cure for Depression is Suicide."
> >
> > He's not really advocating suicide, assisted or otherwise, and neither
> > am I. Because if we're
> > going to be afraid of life, we might as well get ready to kill
> > ourselves--and if we're ready to kill ourselves, what other harm can
> > anything else do to us?
> >
> > One might fail? Big deal! What's failure compared to suicide? People
> > might be mean to us? Big deal! If you've got the bare bodkin and aren't
> > balking at the perchance to dream part, a nasty person is as threatening
> > as a housefly.
> >
> > Anyway, you get the idea.
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
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