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Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:18:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
[...]
> He wandered off into the desert and died.  Coyotes and stuff ate
> him.  He died with tons and tons of dignity.  I hope (if I can't get
> immortality or a good freezer bin) that I have the balls and brains to
> do something like that.


Agreed.  Unfortunately, with progressively debilitating diseases, the
brain is often the first thing to go, and can be gone before you know
what's happened or have a chance to do anything about it.  (I think
the balls are mostly unaffected. :) )

It's a terrible problem.  You could have a will, I suppose, that said
something like "if I become unable to take care of myself and need a
nursing home, then take me out to my favorite spot in the woods, and
let me die in peace."    I don't know.

John C



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  Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
 
(...) Thanks for the advice...I'll try not to. (...) One of my roommates in college grew up in a Utah sheep-farming family. He tells a quaint little annecdote like yours. His grandfather got old (it happens to all of us) and stopped working on the (...) (27 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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