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Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad
theodp writes " I hope my father dies soon," Dilbert creator Scott Adams wrote Saturday in a frustrated, angry, and poignant blog post. 'My father, age 86, is on the final approach to the long dirt nap (to use his own phrase). His mind is 98% gone, and all he has left is hours or possibly months of hideous unpleasantness in a hospital bed. I'll spare you the details, but it's as close to a living Hell as you can get. If my dad were a cat, we would have put him to sleep long ago. And not once would we have looked back and thought too soon. Because it's not too soon. It's far too late. His smallish estate pays about $8,000 per month to keep him in this state of perpetual suffering. Rarely has money been so poorly spent. I'd like to proactively end his suffering and let him go out with some dignity. But my government says I can't make that decision. Neither can his doctors. So, for all practical purposes, the government is torturing my father until he dies.' Adams also had harsh words for those who would oppose assisted suicide, 'I don't want anyone to misconstrue this post as satire or exaggeration. So I'll reiterate. If you have acted, or plan to act, in a way that keeps doctor-assisted suicide illegal, I see you as an accomplice in torturing my father, and perhaps me as well someday. I want you to die a painful death, and soon. And I'd be happy to tell you the same thing to your face.' His father passed a few hours after Adams wrote his screed. Challenged later by the SF Chronicle's Debra J. Saunders, an opponent of assisted suicide, Adams stood firm on his earlier words. So, can Adams succeed in convincing the U.S. where Dr. Jack failed?"
I think he should have just condemned the "bad guys" to forced watching of the "Dilbert" television series, for the rest of their natural lives.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
My name is Scott Adams. You didn't kill my father. Prepare to die.
The determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.
I'd be OK with it as long as I could annoy Jean-Luc.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
> The first 1000 years might be all fun and games
Nope, the first ten million years are the worst.
Oops, wrong Adams.
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
Assisted, end of life suicide already legal in Washington and Oregon and some parts of Europe.
So glad I live in Oregon. "Come for the cheap weed, stay for the assisted suicide."
Jesus, that was funny! :-)
[Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.