From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@btinternet.com)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 17:20:36 MDT
Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
> > I find the concept of a "humane death" to be ridiculous
> > anyway. If I suffer before I die there is nobody
> > capable of registering that pain. A "humane death"
> > seems to allude to a Great Chalkboard in the Sky where
> > Someone keeps tab of all that pain and alters our Karma
> > accordingly.
>
>
> All suffering is suffering "before death."
Such an optimist!
> Are you arguing that the greater the proximity of human
> suffering to the moment of death, the less "bad" it is?
Sort of. Death negates all experience. Suffering is "bad"
not because it hurts, but because it has long-term effects,
both psychological and physical. Death isn't then end of
the final chapter in the literary masterpiece that was your
life; it's a book burning party.
BM
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