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  • From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <DropOut AT yahoogroups.com>, <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <SurvivingModernSociety AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Orlov on death
  • Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:42:18 -0500

"What is not illegal is keeping people alive against their will and
fashioning them into wired, intubated, ghastly science experiments. Doctors
pride themselves on such incongruous achievements, and those who manage to
extend life beyond all odds are considered heroic. Many of the higher
animals, humans among them, posses an instinct that tells them when they are
near death. Following this instinct, they stop feeding, seek seclusion,
become very still and await the inevitable end with dignified resignation.
The innate behavior is denied to Americans, be they human or animal: They
are not qualified to decide when it is time for them to die. This is a deep
cultural flaw that affords the pathological fear of death the status of
heroic struggle."



Don Bowen KI6DIU

http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html






  • [Homestead] Orlov on death, Don Bowen, 11/09/2008

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