tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post896883387087569331..comments2023-09-05T08:45:22.572+01:00Comments on Bête de Jour: Suicide Is ShamelessLa Bêtehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-90012718078965283522009-08-27T20:42:43.860+01:002009-08-27T20:42:43.860+01:00Having just had the misfortune to read two of Plat...Having just had the misfortune to read two of Platells columns I could not agree more. The woman is, to use an understatement, a complete arsehole.Garry Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15295974753025291324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-30025928347961510622009-08-10T00:10:05.755+01:002009-08-10T00:10:05.755+01:00I have to agree with your comments about Ms Platel...I have to agree with your comments about Ms Platell. I find it interesting how she writes... the 'but' is the denial.<br />Drop The Pink Elephant; another writers work helps fathom the real truth hidden in the apparently honest approach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-64898993267348429532009-08-07T09:58:37.056+01:002009-08-07T09:58:37.056+01:00Hi Toni – gosh. It’s difficult to know what to say...Hi Toni – gosh. It’s difficult to know what to say to that without sounding crass. I just wish you all the best with everything. I hope turns out much more positive than you could ever have imagined.La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-45215033069327368972009-08-06T22:43:51.612+01:002009-08-06T22:43:51.612+01:00Toni, the Catholic thing is a bugger but if it'...Toni, the Catholic thing is a bugger but if it's a mortal sin (!) to kill yourself then surely drinking yourself to death knowingly is the same thing? Is it not? <br /><br />I hope the new friend and you can work it out.Catofstripeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626451503696948747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-91829994127317118342009-08-06T17:51:50.796+01:002009-08-06T17:51:50.796+01:00Hmmm, I don't know what to say about this. I a...Hmmm, I don't know what to say about this. I am in extreme pain and it is never going to get better. I will be 40 next year and have a few ,ore years of this to look forward too. I could never commit suicide, (its a Catholic thing), So I drink. I drink a lot. Now I have been told drinking the way I do is probably going to kill me before my original ailment does. I think all people deserve the right to choose how they kick the bucket. I can't kill myself because of religious reasons, but other people have different beliefs. Also I have recently met someone who is aware of my problems but she accepts I might die before we can be together. It isn't ideal but hey, worse things happen at sea I guess.Toninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-91812674192088482922009-08-06T10:48:08.646+01:002009-08-06T10:48:08.646+01:00Hi Litha. I’m sorry to hear that. That’s really sa...Hi Litha. I’m sorry to hear that. That’s really sad, but also, I guess it’s good that your mum was able to take control. It is a strange world, yes. Sometimes really close to unbearable. Sometimes unbearable too, let’s face it. <br /><br />Doc, you do know I was only joking, right? You’re probably joking too. OK, good. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so funny though. Let’s pretend for the moment I’d never said anything about my gran. <i>~goes to give Granny a hug – or at least her will~</i>La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-69310399823907673052009-08-06T09:42:47.384+01:002009-08-06T09:42:47.384+01:00Just a thought: will the insurance you can get wi...Just a thought: will the insurance you can get with your flight cover the costs of repatriating Granny's remains? Or will they try to twist out of it? Hmm....<br /><br />And do, by all means, have that coffee with Ms Mac. Our dearest Antipo needs a little bit 'o torture.Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11561518948847153812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-71122317470427013682009-08-06T08:47:03.393+01:002009-08-06T08:47:03.393+01:00At the end of may we found out my mother had advan...At the end of may we found out my mother had advanced cancer. It would be a matter of months. After a week in hospital getting weaker and weaker, my mom decided she didn't want to go on. The official procedure for euthanasia would take days. So the doctors gave her sleeping medicine. Without food and water her weakened body died from dehydration after 4 days of 'sleep'.<br /><br />In Holland euthanasia is possible for people who are suffering unbearably. But in practice most people die the way my mom did. The doctors told me I shouldn't call it euthanasia, because they didn't do anything to actively kill her. <br /><br />What a strange world we live in...Lithahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458550758536692927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-91921629996775582752009-08-05T22:15:59.967+01:002009-08-05T22:15:59.967+01:00Confused, your grammer confuses me slightly. My gr...Confused, your grammer confuses me slightly. My grammer meanwhile, is in safe hands. Bless her. <br /><br />Juliette, yes, Smothercare is yours. And ideally, on a slightly serious note, assisted suicide should of course be available on the NHS. <br /><br />Merci, mon oncle. <br /><br />Fly, what you describe – if I understand correctly – is murder. I believe that still goes on. <br /><br />Hey, Tim. The freakonomics of suicide, eh? This is where I start to get well out of my depth. I wish it could be a non-financial thing, and people could just die when they wanted to without anyone making a profit out of it. I know, I know, I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. <br /><br />Oh, Henk. Imagine there’s no payments, no rebates, funds or… hold on a sec. What bat? You sick monkey.La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-56246561253710482902009-08-05T09:23:33.784+01:002009-08-05T09:23:33.784+01:00If funding is the problem you could ask your pensi...If funding is the problem you could ask your pension fund for a rebate. Saves them some payments straight off the bat (or the pillow, or the pills &c...)Henk Van Vleckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00154036618109816844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-7056219601440139592009-08-05T07:30:41.847+01:002009-08-05T07:30:41.847+01:00There's an analogy with divorce and abortion a...There's an analogy with divorce and abortion at the middle of the last century. The former was frowned upon, and the latter was illegal - unless you had access to money. Then you could afford the lawyers and the tame psychiatrists (who would say that childbirth would inflict untold emotional damage on the mother) to take care of things.<br /><br />Now, assisted suicide is wrong - for anyone who can't find 7,000 quid and the cost of an EasyJet to Zürich. The pressure to change the law is not about morality - it's about social justice.<br /><br />There is another angle to this: wealthier people, those who can afford Dignitas fees, are also likely to be able to pay for their own end-of-life care. Poorer people with MS, MN, cancer, etc are more likely to be absorbing NHS funds. Let them top themselves as the same rate as Sir Edward and co do, and there's a net saving. Hoorah! (That's a bit like the statistical blip that saw US crime figures dip about 15-20 years after abortion was legalised.)Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-90615805930934628992009-08-04T23:42:59.749+01:002009-08-04T23:42:59.749+01:00If that were my granny, she'd be coming back a...If that were my granny, she'd be coming back and I wouldn't.<br /><br />What happened to the good old NHS days of a pillow over the face of the elderly in geriatric wards? In my young day, elderly people would fight to keep out of the ambulance taking them away.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-8041982317211983462009-08-04T17:03:30.064+01:002009-08-04T17:03:30.064+01:00Bonjour La Bête,
Very well written, with a nasty l...Bonjour La Bête,<br />Very well written, with a nasty little finishing touch. Brill !<br />It's exactly the same problem here, but maybe one day ....the gits will be defeated.<br />Uncle DidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-28887713116711717812009-08-04T16:59:36.467+01:002009-08-04T16:59:36.467+01:00Bete - well, I do agree with you in theory!
Ther...Bete - well, I do agree with you in theory! <br /><br />There's just one thing that bothers me. <br /><br />If these suicide centres get popular, isn't it all likely to get a bit tasteless - as everything generally does when the prospect of big bucks steps into the equation?<br /><br />'Oh go on, Albert love. You've only got a few more years left, and it'll be boring for you back in Eastbourne without me. And they're doing two for the price of one, this weekend.' <br /><br />'Nan, you don't mind bringing Rover when you go to Switzerland, do you? Only there's a special offer this month where they'll do household pets free. And the vet bills are taking the piss lately.'<br /><br />Never mind when they start seperating the euthanasia experience into seperate cost categories. <br /><br />Premier Elite - where you're given state of the art sleeping pills and a bottle of vintage Cristal to wash them down with.<br /><br />Business Class, where you get a glass of Lanson to settle your nerves, before receiving a high quality goose feather pillow over the face. <br /><br />And for those less financially fortunate, there's always the Super Saver - where they leave you out in a back alley till some passing nutter batters you to death with half a brick.<br /><br />Incidentally, can I be the first to trademark the brand name Smothercare? <br /><br />J xAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-62894501419282675342009-08-04T13:40:49.800+01:002009-08-04T13:40:49.800+01:00Im a strong supporter of people who when dyeing sl...Im a strong supporter of people who when dyeing slowly and painfully of a horrible disease take the very very brave decision to end their own life. death is the one and only thing that truley scares me (the unknown and all that) and i have nothing but admiration for the people that take charge and decided when they will end their own existence. That woman at the paper sounds like a bit of an insensitive nob to be honest! sorry for the bad spelling and grammer! :-)Confusedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433058125469891184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-20473016752386177172009-08-04T12:57:09.052+01:002009-08-04T12:57:09.052+01:00LOL kwik e mortLOL kwik e mortAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-345534462957508902009-08-04T12:37:33.192+01:002009-08-04T12:37:33.192+01:00No, you've got my attention now - but mostly b...No, you've got my attention now - but mostly because you said Topperfarms and I said Toppermarkets. You know, like the Kwik-E-Mort.La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-55362032770586622462009-08-04T12:26:29.119+01:002009-08-04T12:26:29.119+01:00Zurich!! You should have a coffee with The Lovely ...Zurich!! You should have a coffee with The Lovely Ms. Mac!<br /><br />But on second thoughts, no, because I will then die from envy. And you wouldn't want my demise on your conscience.<br /><br />Topperfarms -excellent name. Patent it now.<br /><br />I might have to become a Waxy, Venomous Cretin myself, in order to get your attention, right?Antipo Déessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10141078586780895241noreply@blogger.com