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23rd February 2010

I deal with birth charts, a lot of them.  So over a period of decades people die, and purely out of the desire for knowledge I look not only at their birth chart but also their death chart.  And whilst almost every time I can see correlations, there is no tried and trusted formula for predicting one's demise - and if there were, I wouldn't be an astrologer.  But recent cases in the UK concerning the prosecution of people for aiding in assisted suicide really worry me.  When I'm old, tired and worn, I don't want some teenager on minimum wage wiping my bottom whilst listening to some right wing religious nut telling me how good life is, I want to die gracefully and at a time and place of my choosing, ideally surrounded by my freinds and loved ones in the middle of a great party.  I'm really not scared of meeting 'God', I chat with him/her/it every day.  But I think that fundamentalists of all religions are actually terrified that when they die things aren't going to be the way they think they are, so they try and persuade others because if everyone believes the same way that they do it increases the chances that they're right.  Idiocy, ignorance and arrogance.  Tomorrow or forty years time, I will die with dignity and consciousness.  As I've said before, everyone has the right to a good clean life, so why not a good clean death as well?

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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 11:03
You are not the author of your life. God is the author. He determines your birth and death. It is not your right/authority to end your life. Life is precious, regardless of it's sufferings and is something you should be grateful for.
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 11:31
I'm all for 'a good clean death' myself. What really concerns me are those situations where the old person feels that they are a burden to the family, and now that the law exists to legally take their life, or worse still in these cases, be assisted in taking their life, that they should do the decent thing and get it over and done with. Coersion can be so covert as to not be noticable. I have real doubts - not for the conscious thinkers, but for the frail and confused. And I have no fear of 'death' at all, only of violence, I'd hate that. We'd all love to die peacefully, surrounded by loved ones. Let's hope. Peace, love and respect.
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 12:10
Well said, Steve.
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 12:24
You've opened a hot topic with this one Steve as it seems some people just can't accept alternative religious/spiritual views! lol Their loss I guess as I believe we should be able to respect everyone's truth - it's not always the same and no one can be certain that their truth is right but then there's no right or wrong and in my humble opinion god is sexless and resides within us all. As for death well it's only a new beginning...
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 12:57
Actually i always thought god was a she??? My god is the only one true god...........
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 16:51
Actually, if you have the freewill and choice of how you live your life and are responsible for it, it follows that you also have the freewill and choice over your own life and where it should end. The law does not yet exist in the UK where one can lawfully have assisted death, but I would welcome an adult discussion on this subject. There will always be those who want elderly relatives to "do themselves in" for convenience sake, and it is right that they are protected, but to deny those who are of sound mind the right to make that choice is inexcusable in a "democratic society". I do not want to be a burden to my son when I'm old and infirm and would want to have the right to make the choice of when and how I go. Like you Steve, if I can't wipe my own arse, it's time to go. There cannot be any dignity in being subject to the inability to perform even the most basic of functions. You wouldn't subject an animal to this, why us?
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 17:05
Oh for goodness sake why do we have to talk about death? How about the Big GreenGathering/flowers/animals/birds/herbs/the beautiful British countryside/Stonehenge/cropcircles/etc Well today I am a lot more cheerful- why I do not know- (yet again I wonder -is it astrology or is it my age-).I have had yet another broken night's sleep thanks to my neighbours.....and am still very tired...Little do they know what's coming- in my mind I am turning into Darth Vedar/Queen of Narnia/etc with plans to wreak my revenge on them ...( not really- I am hoping a letter might do the trick)Does anyone else live in a semi-dtached house where the walls are paper thin and any quality of life depends largely on the goodwill of the occupants?For years I have been kind, compromising and thoughtful where they are concerned but no more..I am putting my foot down . Yesterday the Piscean in me was paramount- today Aries-*****s to being a Pisces- so far in life it's got me nowhere, I am going to start being a lot more Aries.....Thought for the day from a Pisces/Aries born on the cusp....
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 18:39
Hi Steve, Great comment! I actually think we act 'God' by keeping people alive artificially much, much too long. And i speak as someone who has nursed young men for example who were so desperatly injured that they could only move a couple of fingers and would cry because they couldnt die. By acting God the doctors decided to keep them alive an life support........I would much rather die with dignity, a commodity sadly lacking in todays society.
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 21:07
Steve, your are so very right and i hope that i die with dignity too. Life is precious and we should be grateful for everyday that is given to us...however i do believe we have free will and if one chooses to take their own life (out of desperation)then so be it. How does anyone know whether your death, be it assisted suicide or natural has not already been written into your destiny and how you go and when you go is already written, so to speak. In response to the post about the neighbours...sorry it can be a complete sh.t when you don't get on but yes my walls are thin too. Changing the subject ever so slightly, i commented a while ago about Robins...everytime i worry (which is all the time at the mo) a robin appears at my side, really close and now they follow me singing..not just down the garden but any where,what's all that about? I also had a vivid dream of one sitting on my arm. Now i've read that they represent growth and renewal (any thoughts on that?) which i can accept is happening in my life at the moment.....does make one wonder :)
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 21:38
I've seen 2 close family members die very suddenly and 2 other close family members linger and linger wishing they could die. The lingering ones suffered terribly and it was almost unbearable for loved ones to watch the suffering. Toward the end both would have been glad to be relieved of their pain just a little sooner. Either way those in charge are playing God. It would be nice for the sufferer to have a say or at least not be put on life support to suffer even longer.
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Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 23:12
What are you ranting about? In Australia, we're civilized - we have euthanasia by denial. Here it's perfectly legal to starve someone to death (whilst their relatives look on in horror) - just don't try & end it cleanly by a painless injection of morphine or then you'll really end up in the slammer to pay for your inhumanity. From: - a relative that looked on in horror