I can understand your longing to free your father from his suffering and admire the fact that you felt able to do so,if it were possible.
Even if I was in the state my Mum is in now,completely helpless and wishing to die,I still don’t think I’d be asking for someone to kill me.
Of course this is all speculation,if it did actually come to that I might change my tune.
Feel free to trespass on my privacy at any time young man,I’m pretty easy-going.

You have my sympathy for going through that on several occasions.
I know,much as I might wish it,I could never cause the death of another person.
I sometimes jokingly remark to my daughter,born when I was 40,that I’m planning on living just long enough to be a burden to her.She usually replies that she’ll be ready with a pillow over the face and that there’s no time like the present.
The reality is that I would never ask her to do that for me,I think it’s too much to ask of anyone however extreme the circumstances.

As ever,there are two ways of looking at this.
She’s being seen as a compassionate mother,doing the very best for her child.But a human being isn’t like a beloved pet ,to be given the final gift of a peaceful,painless death.
My Mum is 86.She’s paralysed by a long-term neurological disease,completely bedridden,doubly incontinent,almost totally deaf and with very little sight left.
She constantly reproaches herself for being a heavy burden on me and Dad.
When she was in hospital last year,suffering severe pain from a fractured bone that she didn’t have when she went in,she begged me over and over again to help her end her life.
Would I have done it ?
No,because I believe that it’s wrong to take another life ,whatever the circumstances.
I can see why this mother acted as she did.To see someone you love in constant suffering with no pleasure in life at all is an unbelievable torment I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
But I still think she was wrong to do what she did.

Journey – Don’t stop believing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNB1EUJg1-w

Another way of looking at it is that people who had next to nothing in the first place now have even less.
Nature’s hardly a benign force is it ?

As I said,out of sight,out of mind.
It’s easy to see that there’s been an earthquake/flood/cyclone or whatever natural disaster somewhere remote,say oh that’s terrible and do nothing .
It’s not until you actually see the people affected and hear their stories that you might feel like doing something.
You said yourself,interviews with desperate,starving survivors.That’s what really brings it home,isn’t it ?
I think news reporters are just as vital as any of the other aid services.

A humanitarian disaster on this scale and you’re proposing a complete news blackout ?

Can somebody please guide me to a piece of Hendrix music which actually reflects this so called “Magical” guitar skill? Everything I hear is an out of tune twangy din, occasionally blasted through a fuzzbox….but I am willing to listen to your recommendations and give a valid reflection. He gave 2 or 3 good concerts and died young because he was a druggy, thus martyr to the music fans.
Duane Allman would be my choice from the 60’s.

This do you ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAylkWkd4VA&feature=related