Прэтчетт и эвтаназия
Aug. 12th, 2009 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darth_vasyaSuicide is fear, shame, despair and grief. It is madness.
Those brave souls lately seeking death abroad seem to me, on the other hand, to be gifted with a furious sanity. They have seen their future, and they don't want to be part of it.
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I am enjoying my life to the full, and hope to continue for quite some time. But I also intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod - the latter because Thomas's music could lift even an atheist a little bit closer to Heaven - and perhaps a second brandy if there is time.
Oh, and since this is England I had better add: 'If wet, in the library.'
Who could say that is bad? Where is the evil here?
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Очень жаль, что один из самых умных и адекватных людей, которых я когда-либо видел, вынужден писать такие вещи от первого лица:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203622/Ill-die-endgame-says-Terry-Pratchett-law-allow-assisted-suicides-UK.html - там чуть ниже оно приведено.
Заметка на русском: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24339.5/530949/
Those brave souls lately seeking death abroad seem to me, on the other hand, to be gifted with a furious sanity. They have seen their future, and they don't want to be part of it.
...
I am enjoying my life to the full, and hope to continue for quite some time. But I also intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod - the latter because Thomas's music could lift even an atheist a little bit closer to Heaven - and perhaps a second brandy if there is time.
Oh, and since this is England I had better add: 'If wet, in the library.'
Who could say that is bad? Where is the evil here?
...
Очень жаль, что один из самых умных и адекватных людей, которых я когда-либо видел, вынужден писать такие вещи от первого лица:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203622/Ill-die-endgame-says-Terry-Pratchett-law-allow-assisted-suicides-UK.html - там чуть ниже оно приведено.
Заметка на русском: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24339.5/530949/
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Date: 2009-08-12 05:12 pm (UTC)/v
Date: 2009-08-13 09:05 am (UTC)это (на сегодняшний день, если тебе нравится такая оговорка) _весьма_ умно и адекватно, ок.
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Date: 2009-08-13 10:11 am (UTC)от первого лица - в смысле, что у него у самого со здоровьем всё плохо