archerinwood wrote:Look at all these new members
! Welcome to you all. I watched it and for those who don't know I am 14. I didn't cry (the result of trying very hard not to admittedly). I fully support people's right to choose too. Very good documentary.
I'm fifteen years old, and have been thinking about death much recently without seeing this. This documentary will be on my mind for a long time.
I remember the controversy after it was announced about showing assisted suicide on TV and supporting it. Now I consider how much of an insult it was to those who died to campaign against the show.
Assisted suicide, I have mixed thoughts on it. I don't support euthanasia on pets, because it's often overused and you can't exactly ask them. With humans, you need their permission and they make the choice. But people are able to choose death by incentive of loss of passion for life. I do not personally agree on that, because that's what drives people to physical suicide on a whim. People change their mind eventually, people move on. I'd be quite upset if any of my relatives chose death for that - my own mother got close to overdosing on antidepressants, and probably would have done were my sister not there.
On the other hand, it's a positive alternative to jumping in front of a train.
With Terry, I love his books and can't wait to finish my currently meagre collection. It would be fantastic for more books to be released and his legendary literary skills to carry forward, but it is his own choice to pass on, should he choose to do so.
If he does, this site will become a sort of memorial. I will salute at his funeral.
It's strange, because when he dies, he won't be remembered as a knight. He'll be remembered as Terry, that guy who writes those fantastic books.
And maybe that's a good thing.
