― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Friday, 1 April 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― bro jackson (he knows) (deangulberry), Friday, 1 April 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
apparently starving to death is virtually painless, the only discomfort being dry mouth (in the state she was in, she probably didn't even feel that), which can be alleviated by sucking on ice.
― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Then, I saw the "Thread Connections Chunka Chunka" thread...
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 April 2005 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link
being totally on the pipe helps too. are you kidding?
― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought so too, but I feel like I'm oversensitive to things like that so I usually don't say anything.
― Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I really shouldn't read this thread.
― The Ghost of SOGGY FALWELL (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria D. (Maria D.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
her husband?
― N_RQ, Friday, 1 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this sums it up nicely, though I agree with most of the posters that most of my derision has been directed toward the protesters, not Terri herself. It sucks what happened to her, but, ya know, it sucks that people die.
― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 1 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
dude, did you read my post up above? no wonder we are married in real life. we are heartless lovebirds!
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
"It's occured to me that a lot of the nastiness might be as a distancing mechanism." I think that this is pretty much OTM.
At the risk of sounding callous, and since I don't know any of her family personally and cannot directly cause them grief, I don't think it's all that terrible. It certainly isn't unforeseeable. When I think of the thousands of people here who are going through similar family tragedies, seeing out their Alzheimer's stricken parents or their car crash battered children, when I think of the countless people slowly deterioating from AIDS and other diseases, when I think of the latest Indonesian quake victims or the victims in Darfur, it occurs to me that coping with death is something we all have to face (or ignore) in our own ways, with as much dignity and good humor as we can muster, and that a single death is but a drop in the bucket of our planet's woes.
I was not present when my grandfather died but there was a brief viewing before he was cremated, and I was shocked to find that I went through many different emotions during the breif period we had to say goodbye. At one point, though, we were all laughing as we recalled his many foibles and some of his better bon mots.
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't get it.
― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I am sort of puzzled that she's this Holy Symbold for the wingnut crowd, but not for its opponents: clearly she should matter just as much to you (symbolically speaking) if you're on her husband's side?
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― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy Ulysses Fitzgerald (x Jeremy), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 1 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
thank you.
― Eisbär, Esq. (llamasfur), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 1 April 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 1 April 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Friday, 1 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link