Posted on 03/03/2006 10:56:07 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Buchwald wrote the Prince and the Pauper?
Art on being/becoming a leatherneck: "They beat me up for 12 weeks, then told me "Don't do anything wrong!" And I didn't, for 4 years."
I was referring to the hostility some at FR express toward hospices. They call them death camps. They claim people are being murdered there. They don't think anyone should decide even for himself whether to continue medical treatment for a terminal condition. That Mr. Buchwald has made such choices for himself would offend them. They might prefer that the government intervene to force treatment upon him. Does any of this sound familiar to you, as one of the voices of reason on this topic?
I loved this man's humor back in the late 60's and early 70's.
When we vacationed in Edgartrown on Martha's Vineyard back in the late 70's we often bumped into him walking down the main drag very early in the morning with that quizzical little look on his face and something sweet to eat.
This man is and was just a funny little wonder for the world.
Love from here to Art Buchwald.
Maybe its your mind thats "working".
Cheer up! Some would not understand empathize with your melancholia. For example: "I cannot conceive of a God with a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. Neither can I, nor would I want to, conceive of an individual who survives his own death. Let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with mystery of the eternity of life, with a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with a devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature." -- A. Einstein, 1931. Actually, Einstein thought of the "traditional afterlife" as a prison (and seemed very pleased not to believe in it in the traditional sense). I got the same feeling reading Siddhartha - that Herman Hesse himself was sad for those who saw themselves alive forever. Either way, there's plenty to be sad about here and now on Earth. So perhaps my suggestion to "cheer up" was untimely. Naahhhh - cheer up!
Is this guy still going? Good luck to him and I hope he makes it.
RIP Art Buchwald
My Mom lived with us when she started her dialysis. Her life orbited around those three day a week treatments. The clinic day was pretty much down time for her. Then, her diet had to be controlled as to limit, Potassium, Sodium, and Calcium, which eliminated about %80 of her customary diet items. Liquids had to be controlled or else risk accumulation of fluid in the lungs. The regimen was a constant battle for her and her quality of life wasn't near as good as when here kidneys we functioning. In view of this, I could not find any fault in Art's decision to fore go dialysis.
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