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.

Perhaps unfairly, but provoked by your jokey remark to your daughter, but may I ask you how you would feel if the roles were reversed. If you were in a similar position as my father was, physically destroyed, but with enough mental faculties to understand the circumstances, to feel the pain and worst of all to be impotent in the sense of being unable to take any action, would you not want your life to be taken away at that point? And if so can you understand that for some of us it is the only way.

Please don’t answer if I am trespassing on your privacy, which I respect.

Has anyone mentioned “God” or has he been demoted since his Cream days? And what about Peter Green – some of his playing is sublime.

Bumblebee – you and I have had similar experiences – my mother-in-law then my own mother, in not dissimilar circumstances. But it was with my father that I experienced the most difficulty. He signed a Living Will with a solicitor and asked me to promise him that it was carried out at the appointed time. He ended up in pain, despite morphine, dying from multiple cancers and at every visit my anguish grew. But the hospice would not accede to the Will despite my protestations.

I have no doubt in my mind that, had I had the opportunity I would have carried out my father’s wishes and I am certain he would have thanked me for it if he could. In short, I was prepared to kill him. There is a point at which the suffering of a human being at a point when death is inevitable is not acceptable, not dignified, not endurable.

No I don’t and this photo does nothing to help to sway me towards belief in it! Photographic evidence of anything purporting to be “paranormal” is usually unconvincing and easily faked so hardly worth the column inches. Perhaps it was a slow news day.

Guys, what is new? Give me a penny for every pre-election promise that has not been honored and I will be the richest ****** in the world.

I suppose its the yawning gap between the zealous hopes, out of all proportion to the reality, of the millions who decided that Obama was the saviour of the US and the World, and the reality of where we are now. Not dissimilar to what happened here in 1997. And look where we are now!

Ah…”…in as much as markets allow.”
How’s that working out for the sovereign GBP at the moment?

Up 5% against the Euro. That’s what markets do.

the Malta story

……a petrolium tanker called the Ohio, attacked several times, hit on 5 occasions with bombs, set afire, sinking, abandoned and reboarded, most of the crew killed or injured. After the most heroic effort she was lashed to a Navy destroyer and limped into the harbour at Malta. Without this tanker Malta was lost. The whole town turns out as do the British military. In silence they watch the smashed,smoking and listing tanker leaning against the destroyer with 2 tugs in attendance creeping across the harbour.
All the top brass are assembled with the Admiral watching from their HQ, the admiral on seeing the carnage realised the bravery that was unfolding before him turns to his adjadent and said (with trembling lip)

“Sound the Alert!”

“But she’s not a ship of war,sir”

he turns and looks at the devastation again….

“Isn’t she?…….Sound the Alert!”

As the bugle plays all the officers and men of the RN, RAF and Army around the harbour walls snap to attention and salute.

A remarkable tribute shown by the military to a civilian ship

A great moment in a great film.

Baz

I haven’t been there for ages but spent many months there during the late 60s/early 70s. You never felt the war years and fortress Malta were far away and so many islanders were still alive then with strong personal memories. And, as you say, a great film.

I wonder if he would have a case under sexual discrimination?

I am sure it would be a precedent. He’d need a thick wallet for the lawyers, though!