"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"
(Leonard Cohen)
"Ignore all proffered rules and create your own, suitable for what you want to say"
(Michael Moorcock)
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."
(Andre Gide)

"I want my place, my own place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing which Nature intended me to perform when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have vainly sought all my life-time."
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
(Franz Kafka)
"All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated"
(John Donne)
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
(Robert J. Hanlon)
"Life is beautiful, but the world is hell"
(Harold Pinter)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Dignity in Life and Death

EXTRACT: Terry Pratchett wants to take control of his life and hence the manner of his death as well. And communists support his right to do so, or what should be his right to do so. The current situation, whereby British people have to “drag themselves” to Switzerland in order to get the “services that they were hoping for”, is, as Pratchett says, “appalling” and something to be “ashamed” of. Clearly, the state should not stop people from deciding to end their life - forcing them to go on living in a way they find insufferable. And people need to be able to exercise such a choice in a humane way - as opposed to throwing yourself under a train or buying some cheap heroin from your local dealer in the hope it does the job. Obviously, this is not “Nazism” - as often stupidly, and hysterically, claimed by many ‘pro-lifers’ and religious fanatics, Rather, it is a simple recognition that the quality of life is just as important as its duration.
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