<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Shaking hands with Death."]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/54.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Shaking hands with Death. id link this for you all, im sure most the Brits, and any Americans with genuine taste will enjoy it.

One of the best spent fifty minutes ive had in the last fortnight, an amusing and somewhat saddening lecture, from Terry Pratchett.

Im not a sentimental man, but i think he seems very dignified, and i can always respect that. He will be sadly missed indeed.

Enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qmfgn/Richard_Dimbleby_Lecture_Shaking_Hands_with_Death/]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300520.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300520.page GMT Shaking hands with Death.
I saw it last night, v good. Although I must admit when I first flicked onto it I thought Tony Robbinson had contracted alzheimers.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300555.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300555.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. lol. Tony isnt that bad is he? I thought he read it rather well.. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300564.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300564.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300578.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300578.page GMT Shaking hands with Death.
I just found it on Iplayer.

I liked the phrase at the start you may have missed if you walked in on it last night, he called Robinson his "Stunt Pratchett". ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300582.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300582.page GMT Shaking hands with Death.
Not so sure about some of the content on the speech mind. He seemed to go on in the middle about how most people ignore the fact they are eventually going to die as if it was a bad thing. Me, I don't really agree that living life with a constant acknowledgment that you are going to die is going to get you anywhere.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300612.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300612.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300619.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300619.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300629.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300629.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUE3pBIuAGk Part I]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300647.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300647.page GMT Shaking hands with Death. Tony Robinson was used as one of the symptoms of posterior cortical atrophy is that he cannot read text for long periods of time (so he had Robinson do it for him)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300770.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1300770.page GMT Shaking hands with Death.
Edit: Interesting thus far, but it seems too aesthetic for my taste. I agree that death should be a choice where possible, but the notion that dignity must be a descriptor feels wrong. Death is never dignified. It is ugly, brutal, painful, tragic, horrid, and any number of other adjectives which carry a less than positive meaning. It seems the desire for dignity follows from a feeling of vanity maintained through life, rather than any appeal to a sort of objective goodness. Of course, that doesn't mean we should deny the desirous a 'dignified' death; it simply means that our reasons for doing so should be divergent from my understanding of the popular concept of dignity. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1301462.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/277078/1301462.page GMT