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Started by AFK, January 15, 2013, 01:30:14 AM

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I find this story to be both terribly sad, yet, beautiful, if in a melancholic way.  Adult twins who were born deaf, who have lived together for 45 years.
They were starting to lose their eyesight and would've been completely blind soon.  Rather than face completely helpless lives of dark, silence. 
They decided to die together, which Belgium allowed legally. 
Because really, why the fuck should a government get to force you to live when you don't want to.http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/14/16507519-faced-with-blindness-deaf-twins-choose-euthanasia?lite

Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 15, 2013, 03:01:48 AM
I am heartened by this, somehow.

I wonder what Helen Keller would have thought?

I mean, I'm okay with them being allowed to do it, but...
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Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 15, 2013, 03:03:53 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 15, 2013, 03:01:48 AM
I am heartened by this, somehow.

I wonder what Helen Keller would have thought?

I mean, I'm okay with them being allowed to do it, but...

I don't know. If she was 45 and losing her sense of touch, I wonder what she'd decide.
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Hulking Dormouse of Lust and DESPAIRâ„¢
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"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

AFK

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 15, 2013, 03:03:53 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 15, 2013, 03:01:48 AM
I am heartened by this, somehow.

I wonder what Helen Keller would have thought?

I mean, I'm okay with them being allowed to do it, but...


It's the ultimate jailbreak and I can't fault them for a second.  Who the fuck wants to be imprisoned by their biology?
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 15, 2013, 03:03:53 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 15, 2013, 03:01:48 AM
I am heartened by this, somehow.

I wonder what Helen Keller would have thought?

I mean, I'm okay with them being allowed to do it, but...

Yeah, I kind of wondered the same thing.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."