virtual crazy gang, part II

[Irvingman]

Originally Posted by Engine Serang

I admit to having a library of wholemeal DVD's;-
The Great War
Dixon of Dock Green
Mr Pastry's Greatest Hits
Blue Peter 1964 Season
Z-Cars
Debbi Does Dallas
Crackerjack.

Someone else who remembers Mr Pastry!
And I thought I was all alone in the World!

[Engine Serang]

Longed for a train set like Christopher Trace on Blue Peter, longed for a peek up Valerie Singleton's ***** and the longing continued with The Money Programme. It wasn't all bad on 405 lines.

[tweediekiwi]

Three Cheers for Varley's Pussy! Hip hip ... etc., followed by for he's a jolly good, and so on. You gotta appreciate survivors when they're around.

[Engine Serang]

Our cat had to be put down recently for an incurable kidney ailment and it was a surprisingly emotional few days.

[YM-Mundrabilla]

Yes, putting down a sick pet is an emotional time.
We lost our 17 year old dog, Tigger, a few years ago when she got sick.
On the way home to bury Tigger I said to the YMs at the time 'that I hope that someone will do the same for me one day should the need arise'.

[rustytrawler]

Is your Mrs any good at digging holes?

[Malcolm G]

There is much discussion currently about ‘assisted dying’.
I have pointed out that, from personal experience, legal assisted dying has been available for nearly 200years, courtesy of the Railway Industry.

[Jupiter71]

Canada [lived there for over 40 years] has Medically assisted suicide [and marijuana if you want it]. To this day there are arguments for and against. An argument against is people choosing this to relieve the burden they are placing on their family even though they may have many years to go.

Having been subjected to these decisions when my wife was diagnosed with inoperable cancer on the brain. The one thing my wife said numerous times was "don't let me be a vegetable", without out going into a lot of details, she was diagnosed with about 18 months, after 4 months the screaming started from the pain, thank god for medically assisted dying - with out it I shudder to think

[Varley]

So why do we do it? I venture to suggest it is selfishness. We expect to get enough out of a relationship to tolerate the inevitable grief of loss.

It is better to have had a pet basket which is now empty than to not have had a pet basket at all.

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

On the first I concur. On the second I have never dared.

We have just passed our own assisted dying legislation. We are still not allowed to go whenever we like but I accept there do have to be safeguards and, of course, for those very brave medics that have always put a little too much in the final nightly syringe, if not perhaps, with quite as much gusto as Shipman or the 'snobbery by proxy' of Lord Dawson.

Those who would choose their exit on the 'permanent way' are truly selfish and those who choose to be found hanging the hall or exsanguinated in the family bathroom only slightly less so.

[170 Driver]

Originally Posted by Varley

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

Mr Barrowclough: Well, look at it this way, 'tis better to have loved and lost than...to spend your whole ruddy life with her.