what can the harvest hope for?

[rivendellrose]

Terry Pratchett speaks out on his hopes and feelings about the need for assisted suicide in the UK>

In the words of Death, in Pratchett's own Reaper Man: "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?"

I do very much hope he gets the ending he wants.

Comments

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link - very good article.

Furious Sanity indeed!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Very welcome - I'm glad you liked it!

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

"Now, however, I live in hope - hope that before the disease in my brain finally wipes it clean, I can jump before I am pushed and drag my evil Nemesis to its doom, like Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty locked in combat as they go over the waterfall."
I love this so much. What a wonderful article, thanks for the link!

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Isn't he lovely? That man is so totally my hero. ♥

[vonquixote.livejournal.com]

Oh, Terry. Old bugger always knows how to reduce a chap to tears.

He's absolutely right. I especially like that line about faith in the wisdom of ordinary people*; he's right, but I think it's also an overwhelming faith in the Power of the Clinic, of the Judge, of the Parliament - of the power of Authority to know our own situation better than we do, when all Authorities' decisions are based on our own descriptions of our circumstances. We've become so used to being told how we feel and what we need that we've forgotten how the processes of diagnosis and treatment, crime and reparation, situation and solution actually work. Sir Terry, bless him, is trying to remind us that we always have another option, a way that isn't Their Way or the highway. Good luck to him.


* especially given the irony of publishing in the Mail, a paper which appeals to the very worst in those people's nature, but what the hell.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Pretty much my exact feelings. I've always been impressed by the way his books have an amazingly unvarnished warts-and-all truth to them - he doesn't romanticize, but there's still such an obvious optimism to what he writes. I was hesitant to find out too much about him as a person, for fear he wouldn't live up to that himself - and I've been utterly charmed and flabbergasted to find that from what I've seen of him, he does.

Regarding the Mail - that surprised me, too. It doesn't seem at all like the sort of paper I'd expect to see him writing in. I wonder what the backstory there is...