Life

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by livi

At this moment Sweden is collectively in chock and rage. One week ago a ten year old girl was biking home from football practice. 500 meters from home she vanished. Her bike was discovered on the side of the road. An enormous search team has worked around the clock since then. No luck.

Yesterday the perp was caught. He had killed her and buried her far away from home. He broke down during questioning and admitted not only to having killed the little girl but also a young woman several years ago.

Sweden now has a strong death penalty lobby. Well, after he has had big nails hammered into his knee caps and elbows and burning cigarettes shoved into his eyes. His tiny balls crashed with a sledge hammer and acid poured over the rest of his body.

I think that would be too kind Livi.

[Racerbvd]

here i am, 5 capt. & cokes later @ a lOcal pub using my phone to respod. a few more shots of jeger & i'll be fine.

[SlowToady]

Byron, do me a favor and hoist one for Dezzy.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by SlowToady

Byron, do me a favor and hoist one for Dezzy.

done!!!!

[sammyg2]

I suppose if I believed that this physical life on earth was all there is, I'd be worried about it coming to an end too.

[livi]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I suppose if I believed that this physical life on earth was all there is, I'd be worried about it coming to an end too.

Erh, we don´t want to go there..again.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by targa911S

Life gets more precious when there is less of it at stake. At age 57 I am starting to see my own mortality more every day. I'm not afraid of dying, nobody here will escape it, I am afraid of wasting time and not doing some of the things I really want to do. That said, I'm going to go do something else now.

That pretty well sums it up. And, I think we ought to have the right to die by choice (well, we do, but I meant assisted).

[SlowToady]

Well, it's offical as of about three hours ago. Dez is gone, they took her off life support. I hope it was some small consolation to her to be surrounded by family and friends. Her family has decided to donate her organs so that others may live.

RIP Dezzy, I'm sorry....

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by SlowToady

Because when you're lying in a hospital bed with collapsed lungs, on life support, and you have those few (precious) minutes left to (hopefully) enjoy the company of those who love and care for you, it might be nice to be able to reflect, to look at them, and know that you lived a good, honest, life and had fair dealings with others, before you go.

What would such reflection accomplish?

You'll still be just as dead.

Death blows in every way possible. There is no upside, there is no 'why'. It doens't have to make sense, and it rarely does.

Life's a biitch, and then you die.

[SlowToady]

I suppose we have different ways of thinking about things, then.

I, for one, would like to know, when my time is up, that I had at least some small positive influence on at one person's life, and that I didn't squander the small amount of time God gave me here.

There is some quote I'm trying to remember, about some French guy, who, upon his death, realizes his entire life was a sham, or was speaking in prose, or some such thing, but it's not coming to me.

"It's not what you when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go." I'd like to leave something positive, and know it. Maybe you're different. And that's ok too...

Originally Posted by m21sniper

What would such reflection accomplish?

You'll still be just as dead.

Death blows in every way possible. There is no upside, there is no 'why'. It doens't have to make sense, and it rarely does.

Life's a biitch, and then you die.

[peppy]

This just breaks my heart.

[Zef]

Live it now...You'll be dead for a very long time...!

[m21sniper]

The quote that comes to my mind is "Dying is more an affair of the survivors, then of the victims".

Sure you may get some warm fuzzy feeling as you lay on your death bead, reflecting back upon a 'picturesque' life as the veil of darkness envelops you at last, but once it does, all that is gone....forever.

Once you're dead, none of it matters in the slightest. Rapist, murderer, saint, poet, peaceful death, violent death, ate by a shark, what's the difference?

None. You're dead.

This is my view on the subject. Suffice it to say, i'm not looking forward to it at all.

[Hugh R]

Sorry to hear about Cindy's loss and others.

To me, life is like light bulbs, there are bright ones, dim ones, many colors sizes and shapes. They work in different ways, halogen, tungsten, fluroscent. Some are more efficient than others, some last way longer than they're supposed to, and others burn out the second you screw them in the sockets. In the end, when they're gone you throw them in the trash.