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February 14, 2003
Assorted things
I finally finished up my Music and Arts class which was torture. I learned a lot but most of the class was based on memorization and not comprehension. I am very good at comprehension but not so good at memorization. Anyway it's over with and hopefully I didn't do too bad.
Death rears its head again in my thoughts. I just found out today that my mother's boyfriend's father has cancer. Apparently it has spread all throughout his body and he's not doing well. This year (past 12 month period), my fiance's mother has died, an uncle in our tight-knit family has died, and now someone with cancer. It just doesn't seem to quit but that's life so it never will.
I watched 60 minutes II tonight and there was a short on assisted suicide in Switzerland. A german man suffering from Parkinsons decided he wanted to end things. He wasn't terribly old, immobilized, or sick but he decided he wanted to do this before he was unable to do it himself. It looked like it was too early. Well he ended up taking his own life and they revealed he had no family and his wife had died 7 years prior. When asked if he had a good life, he said he had a very good life and if they had a cure that he wouldn't be making this call.
Yes, morbid but I'm reminded *constantly* how much of a gift life is. It seems lately with the current events that it is that much more precious and it may be taken away quite soon.
Posted by beamz at February 14, 2003 1:16 AM
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