La Tristesse Durera by The Manic Street Preachers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgZNsRerG8&feature=related

Nice to hear The Byrds again Steve.

Thank you for having the courage to share that Moggy.Listening to such courage and dignity reduced me to tears.
As a religious type and church-going Christian ( Baptist ),can I say that I’ve nothing but contempt for the attitude of the Archbishop and the Cardinal.
I’ve been having some long conversations with my minister lately on the question of suffering,and he himself admits to being as mystified as I am.The usual platitude that’s trotted out is that ” God suffers along with you “,but if that’s so,then why would He have afflicted my Mum with a neurological disease that’s slowly destroyed her life,given my daughter a life-long painful condition at the age of seventeen,and treated me to many years of childlessness ? It just doesn’t make sense.
Anyway,if this law was already in place,then I would no longer have a mother because when she was in hospital three months ago she asked me over and over to help her to die.Her illness isn’t terminal,but to my mind she has no quality of life at all – bed-ridden,paralysed,incontinent,nearly deaf and blind,who in their right mind would want to live like that ?
And yet,she can enjoy a joke with her carers,take pride in her grand-daughter,reminisce with Dad about when she was in the WAAF and he was in the RAF,and appreciate the minister’s praying for her when he visits now she’s home again.
Would it have been right for me to authorise the doctors to end her life when she asked,if she wanted it and the law allowed it ? I honestly don’t know,because her illness isn’t “terminal ” as such.
My brother-in -law,on the other hand,faded away from terminal cancer and I believe would have welcomed the chance to make a dignified exit at the time of his own choosing.
It’s just so terribly complicated.

Parenthood is indeed a privilege which the vast majority manage to achieve without much thought.
I can understand your point of view.
However I would also like to point out that it’s more or less impossible to appreciate the misery that being unable to have children causes unless you’ve experienced it personally.
If an orphaned child can become part of a loving family by money changing hands,then I won’t condemn that.

Have any of you gentlemen stopped to consider the reasons why people adopt children ?
I can tell you from personal experience that if you’re desperate for a child you would give every penny that you own to hold a child of your own in your arms.
Paying for children from another country does seem very much like selling human beings,but please don’t condemn absolutely those who choose to do so.Changing attitudes mean that fewer children are given up for adoption now than was the case years ago.
I was lucky, I managed to produce a child of my own at last at the age of forty,but all those years when I was trying to do something that most other women could do with ease and next door’s cat could do with its eyes shut gave me a very different view of the world.

But I am a girl!

Woo Hoo !!!

Haven’t heard this for years – The Beatles/I should have known better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3k3Y2qkwo&feature=related

And they say men are shallow …

I believe the expression is “Back at you “.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDL25bkkBB0

1. My husband never failing to go back indoors because he’s forgotten something,every time he shuts and locks the front door.

2. The parents in our town centre who allow their bratty children to run screaming towards groups of pigeons,stamping their feet and scaring the birds witless.I know they’re vermin but I wish they wouldn’t do it.Vermin refers to the pigeons,not the children.

3. People who think ” you’re ” is actually spelt ” your “.

4. Anyone who assumes that because I’ve got a bus pass the only music I must like is what’s called ” easy listening “.

5. Christmas. Can’t stand it.