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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:30:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> Another "for the record" here: I don't want to step out of the food web.  But
> my family - if I'm still in the US will be prohibited by law from following my
> wishes on disposal of my body.  I would like to be dumped out of a plane into
> the deep woods and left to the environment to deal with.  Burrying and burning
> are both creepy.

  Hmm.. What if you lightning subsequently sets fire to the woods where you're
hypothetically dropped?  Or if a landslide buries you?

  Burying and burning may be creepy, but cholera (for example) and the stench
of rotting corpses trouble me, too.

     Dave!



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  Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
 
(...) Well, I guess I won't care...I'll be dead. I mean, nothing's perfect. (...) I'm pretty sure that the stench of rotting corpses doesn't trouble vultures and heyenas; how about if you just let them have me instead of trying to do the work (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
 
(...) being (...) I mean, why does the difference between being fully animal and being merely animal have anything to do with who should be able to victimize whom? (...) I think that murder "is an unfortuante part of the reality of this world" too. (...) (26 years ago, 27-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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