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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“Hey, Dad?”
“Wanna have a Scrabble?”
“I’d like that.”
;-)
That is one of the greatest lines ever, in a baseball movie. “Hey UMP, how about a warning?” “ Sure... Watch out you don’t get killed.”
Great post! Much appreciated
The one constant through all years, Ray, has been Scrabble. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But Scrabble has marked the time. This board, this game: it’s part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us all that once was good and it could be again.
Why most you involve someone else? Is it so hard to kill yourself?
Why are you choosing to get involved?
Shoeless Joe was a great, great book. I liked it so much, I never watched Field of Dreams. I figured it could never live up to how good the book was, especially when I heard that JD Salinger wasn’t even in the movie. He was central to the book.
I object to the medical profession being utilized to kill people. I wonder why people who feel they have a moral right to die think they need assistance. It makes no sense to me. It seems to me that killing oneself is normally a simple process, unless you are paralyzed.
Me, too. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath? First, do no harm? I weep for the devaluation of human life.......but in a Socialist Paradise, if you are not contributing to the cause, you are a waste of oxygen and food reserves.
He would enjoy the fact that the Washington nationals have a reliever, Marc Rzepczynski, whose nickname is “Scrabble”.
Great movie except for their comment on Ty Cobb.....to keep the perception of “evil” Cobb alive and well-—as Hollywood constantly does with their perversion of the Truth.
Try the latest book, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, by Leerhsen —the best researched account of Cobb—it should change your perception of Cobb and make you angry when Hollywood takes such evil liberties with a person’s reputation. Kind of like what they did to Senator McCarthy-—who was destroyed for stating the truth by all the commie plants in the Senate to take him out.
From the description of book-—”After his death in 1961, however, something strange happened: his reputation morphed into that of a monster—a virulent racist who also hated children and women, and was in turn hated by his peers. “
Don’t you like when someone asks, does it hurt?
One night when it was just my wife and I, I had to explain that it hurts all of the time. All. Of. The. Time.
I did not want to scare her or sound like I did not appreciate the support and empathy. Talking about it does not help. And, there is nothing she can do about it.
But if you haven’t had it, one has no idea.
No one believes the symptoms I tell them because they are so insane.
I completely believe you when you say all the time.
Sometimes i get palpitations from the pain and think “well if i die from the palpitations it wont be suicide and i’ll get to Heaven” :)
Brother, you’ve got my name and you can email me any time day or night. I know talking doesn’t help, but maybe it’s a little different with someone who knows fully what you are going through
Ciao,
Mark
My former hardline stance against it got blown to smithereens when I was an insurance agent working with senior citizens. After a few months I saw with my own eyes people who were on anywhere from 8-24 daily medications and/or oxygen just to stay ‘alive’, and how the side effects from their maintenance medications alone were horrible to endure. At least a couple of them said bitterly or pitifully “If I wanted another pill for some reason they’d write me a prescription in a heartbeat but if I wanted a pill to actually END the pain they’d put me in a padded room.”
I was shaken to the core of my being that elderly men and women - some decorated veterans - were not allowed to plan a day when they could leave their pain-wracked existence surrounded by friends and family instead of whoever can make it to the hospital in time, if anyone. That even saying you’re THINKING about it is literally thoughtcrime that can get you locked up.
Yes obviously allowing assisted suicide can lead to abuses if not VERY carefully monitored and controlled...but as things stand we are making human beings endure suffering that a decent man wouldn’t make the family dog go through.
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