Posted on 09/16/2016 6:30:52 PM PDT by jerod
W.P. Kinsella, the B.C.-based author of Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel that became the film Field of Dreams, has died at 81.
His literary agency confirms the writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, B.C. The agency did not provide details about Kinsella's health.
Kinsella suffered a head injury when he was in a car accident in 1997. Three years after the accident, he said he had no interest in writing fiction and was spending his days playing Scrabble on the internet.
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Oddly enough, the excuse for not having a death penalty in Canada is that it isn't worth the death of one innocent person, but apparently doesn't apply to those who, unwillingly will be assisted to their deaths through this new legislation... Socialism... It isn't all it's cracked up to be.
As for Mr. Kinsella.... May he rest in piece and thanks to him we have one of the best movies ever made.
I wonder what his screen name was. I might have played a game or two against him.
There must be a second W Kinsella, human rights lawyer? These aren’t the same people?
Well, you know, I never got to play internet Scrabble. I would have liked to have had that chance. Just once. To stare down a big league Scrabbler. To stare him down, and just as he goes to spell, wink. Make him think you know something he doesn’t. That’s what I wish for.
What the proponents of “right” to die fail to understand is that in the not too distant future, that “right” will be transmogrified into “DUTY” to die. Once you become “unproductive” and a “drag on society”, you will be led to the euthanasia room, whether you want to go or not.
Bank on it.
As I find myself failing in health, I’m starting to soften toward assisted suicide. I’m nowhere near it yet, but I’ve had enough really bad days to at least contemplate it.
You win the internet! Well done!
LOL, thanks.
There is no need for us to make moral judgements. Leave that to God. He had a history of head injury and probably clinical depression, like most suicides.
#### that!!!!!!!!
I’ve been living with a BEAST of a head injury for 11 years.
300k soldiers are living with them!!!!!
what should they do?!?!!
You suffer and you enjoy what you can and you pray and you hope!!!!!!!
No mother ####er is taking my life EXCEPT GOD!!!!!!
I’ve suffered enough for ten lifetimes. So what?
who the #### a I to decide my newphews and nieces and mother dont need me or that my assisted death wont affect them at all.
I SPIT on the injury and I SPIT on death. Whenever it is ready to get me, it will come.
Like Russell said in Gladiator “death laughs at a man. All a man can do is laugh back”
Kinda true about life too.
But I’ll be ### damned if end it one second sooner than God planned and show my nephews and niece i was a coward.
And then you’ll get a tile thrown at you high and tight.
If your vocabulary is not as large as his, you can try and con your way into a win by playing phonies that seem good. Mention ahead of time that you're a biologist and play lots of Latin-sounding words, or that you're a geologist and spell lots of words that end in 'ite' and 'ate'.
It's worth a try.
BTW: His name is Chris Cree. He's a decent guy, but a bit of a snob when it comes to Scrabble. So taking him down a peg would be welcome by all.
Lots of words with QU and X (I dunno, I never played Scrabble).
I have some pretty nasty neurological issues. There is no pain like nerve pain.
I never thought about suicide. I understand how someone a little older, without a family network would.
Pain is a horrible thing. It is one day at a time. And several times you are looking forward to an hour. One hour at a time.
Golf clap. Reply of the day. Congratulations and well played.
By the time I was ten, playing Scrabble got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was fourteen I started refusing. Can you believe that? An American boy refusing to play Scrabble with his father.
I laugh out loud it’s so bad sometimes! :)
If I didn’t laugh I might crack.
Got thalamic stroke syndrome. BINGO the lottery!! :)
I am sorry you are suffering.
Trump will or BETTER triple the study of ways to treat the TBIs and the nerve damaged soldiers from the two wars.
They deserve it. ALL of it.
Watch out for in your ear.
If you spell it, they will . . . eh, never mind.
Well said. Hang tough, your value is much more than how you feel today.
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