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Have you been happy when someone died?

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Lost two people I was close with over the past month - Joey, and Ray. Both Reds and top guys. Joey was my mate from school who I used to meet for pre-match piss-ups. And Ray was my da's friend; the most knowledgeable Red I've met. Loved the club more than everything.

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As for whose death I would be happy about? Margaret Thatcher. Happy would be an understatement. I would be ecstatic. And would drink and party the whole week!
 
If you were like a self made hundred+ millionare that was single I wonder if there would be extended family looking to kiss up to you and at the same time silently look forward to the day of your death?

Muddy, do you have a will?

if you were to die this year, who would get your thousands?

Muddy, I want you know if always looked up to you like an uncle on the forums.

Mudcat, at the very least give me your bike helmet in the case of your death.

unless of course you died in a tragic train track bike wreck. I don't want it, if you died in it
 
I do have a will, yes. My brother and sister are currently my beneficiaries.

I suppose you can have my bike helmet, sure. I will have to amend the will though because that is not currently stated in there. I will make it my top priority.

Tougher call is who gets this:

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When my dad died I was happy. He was suffering for a bit, and it was a mental and physical drain on my mom and the rest of the family because he wanted to die at home. It was getting to the point when we weren;t going to be able to continue to provide the care. Maybe relief is a better word than happy, but happy that the uncertainty of the when was over with.
 
I'll tell you what brought this up. I was watching season 4 of Big Love and when the evil prophet Roman died, many people had reason to be happy and one character, on hearing the news, had a reaction like her favorite hockey team had just scored a game-winning goal in overtime.

I am interested in that kind of hate/ambition.
 
Lots of people happy about Bin Laden dying. People celebrating in the street like they won the lottery.

I might have guessed that this would be a death I would be happy about but not really. I can't say I am happy. There was no YES! moment.

I suppose I am glad. That's the closest I can get to happy. Intellectually I prefer that he not be at large. He was a loose end that has now been snipped.

If I believed in an afterlife and imagined him sitting somewhere right now feeling confounded and defeated, I might be happy about that. But he's dead. He hasn't been taught a lesson or any shit like that.

No, there has been no feeling I would describe as happy.
 
A+ bump

humans are all fokked up when it comes to this shit.

remember all the scenes of adults and kids in the street celebrating when the news/aftermath hit SOME of the middle eastern states?

I don't blame them. hell, if I saw the west through their lenses I'd be dancing too.

but yeah.

I'd much rather people poignaitly remember all those that innocently lost their lives due to politics and tyranny and territory. even if it was 1 innocent deceased a day for every day of the rest of our lives...


Hell Osama used some chick as a "human shield" before he got shot. let's hear her story
 
Muddy, I am kind of in the same boat here. Did the guy deserve to die, absolutely. Am I glad that portion of the travesty is over, yes.

I can't bring myself to celebrate the death of someone though. Death is death and while it is unavoidable, and in some cases like this deserved but it is death. About the only time I can see celebrating or being happy for someone's death is when it is someone who is suffering and in agony and death is the only relief for them.
 
Wally,

if you were a close personal friend of bigboydan or sbrjohn, and they had like stomach cancer, bone cancer, lung cancer, penis cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, and shingles.

and you were visiting one of them

and they asked you to put them out of their misery, would you take a pillow and snuff them out?
 
Archie
Wally,

if you were a close personal friend of bigboydan or sbrjohn, and they had like stomach cancer, bone cancer, lung cancer, penis cancer, throat cancer, mouth cancer, and shingles.

and you were visiting one of them

and they asked you to put them out of their misery, would you take a pillow and snuff them out?
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I try my best to avoid visiting people on their death beds. I don't go to hospitals to visit either. I am a loyal friend but I don't see any possible way I could ever do something like that. I can understand the sense of commitment or loyalty that some have and could do that but I can't see doing it myself.
 
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When my dad died I was happy. He was suffering for a bit, and it was a mental and physical drain on my mom and the rest of the family because he wanted to die at home. It was getting to the point when we weren;t going to be able to continue to provide the care. Maybe relief is a better word than happy, but happy that the uncertainty of the when was over with.
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Been there. It definitely isn't happiness. It is relief.
 
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