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Old 14-06-2011, 18:02   #30
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die

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Originally Posted by heth View Post
I know what you all mean about people saying that they have lived too long.

In a strange way it just upset me more than people going to die because they have a illness.
It upsets me because there should be (in a ideal world, I know) more in place for these people not to feel "weary of life".

They should be able to turn to some-one before going down the assisted suicide route.
When you are weary of life, there really is nowhere to go.
And as Gary rightly said, the dead person doesn't care, they aren't here anymore........when we feel sorry, sad, upset, it is ourselves we are considering, not the departed.
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