RIP thread

[Meini Hirion]

Oh dear. I met Acker when we used to put on {student} gigs ~many years ago.
Not a very pleasant anecdote, so this is not the place for it.

RIP Acker.

[patwynnfan]

The great Acker Bilk is dead, another legend from my youth gone.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29874053

[patwynnfan]

Bollywood actor Amrapurkar dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-29875877

[Mr Bond]

The actress Christiane Minazzoli, which was initiated by Jean Vilar and Gerard Philipe, died Sunday at the age of 83 from cancer in a Paris hospital, his agent has announced.
Just received the top drama of Paris National Conservatory, she was recruited in 1952 by Jean Vilar and Gerard Philipe in the company of the Theatre National Populaire (NPT).
The daughter of a French of Pas-de-Calais and an Italian Piedmont remain eleven NPT, playing classics at the Palais de Chaillot, and in Avignon during international tours.
From 1963 until 2001, it was divided between television, film and theater, performing on contemporary pieces including many Parisian scenes author.



Known and respected for her great talent, she has made only one film in which she appeared naked, Story of O, Corinne Clery.



RIP Christiane.
Your talent, your grace, and your class will be missed.

[ball7]

Artist Jeremy Dale has died at the young age of 34.
jeremy Dale was the creator of Action Labs comic book Skyward and also did art on several special G.I.Joe issues with Larry Hama.

Dale died on the November the third, surronded by his wife and friends.

[Oswald]

Actress Renée Asherson has died aged 99.

A well known actress from the 1940's/50s she was married to the actor Robert Donat. She was better known to a younger audience when in 1990 she played the wife of Harry Enfield's comedy character Norbert Smith in 'Norbert Smith: A Life'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...-obituary.html

[Navvet]

Brittney Maynard

While dying of brain cancer she decided to take her own life, and her doctor helped her do it. Physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is legal in several states.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/02/health...ttany-maynard/

The Vatican has already weighed in on the subject;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...n-9840093.html

[cicciobuki]

Originally Posted by navvet

Brittney Maynard

While dying of brain cancer she decided to take her own life, and her doctor helped her do it. Physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients is legal in several states.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/02/health...ttany-maynard/

The Vatican has already weighed in on the subject;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pe...n-9840093.html

Not surprised about the Vatican's respons, since christianity has kind of a perverted affection towards suffering.

But I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that euthanasia is possible in some states, do you happen to know which ones?

[Eric Cartman]

Originally Posted by cicciobuki

But I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that euthanasia is possible in some states, do you happen to know which ones?

It is legal in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland. In the United States there are assisted dying laws restricted to terminally ill and mentally competent adults in Oregon where she died, Montana, Washington and Vermont.

I am not a religious man but the idea of The Catholic Church spewing their beliefs with respect to her decision (she was not catholic btw) does nothing to make me want to seek out Jesus any more than I do now. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

As a nurse, I've seen a number of people die. One that I can remember very well was a man in his mid forties. Had cancer of the spine and it was an aggressive cancer. One of his greatest fears wasn't the pain he'd be in. We would hopefully be able to ease that. His fear was his being heavily medicated and unaware....his family watching the cancer slowly take his life and the suffering they would go through.

He told me he wished he could somehow die when the pain became too much to bear and before his family had to see him like that. A mentally competent man wishing to decide when he dies rather than let the disease make the choice for him. I see no fault in that at all.

[pharoahegypt]

AMEN! To that, Brother Cartmannn. (I'm no religious follower either, for what it's worth)

They don't let animals suffer in pain, but happily allow humans to do so... Not on!!