By INGRID TISCHER Welcome to the world of Champagne lifetimes and caviar deaths! I’m Robbin’ Leech, your guide to the deathstyle media titans that are teaching us how the fabulously wealthy celebrate the moments of their end-of-lives. Today I’ll be sharing two sumptuous images from Costs Illustrated magazine and then dazzling you with one glorious […]
Clickhole is part of The Onion and parodies sites that post items that go viral. Today, Clickhole featured a “story” obviously inspired by the viral story of Brittany Maynard, who, along with a great deal of technical assistance from Compassion and Choices, shared her wish to kill herself using Oregon’s assisted suicide law. Part of […]
It was bound to happen. At least one New Age practitioner has decided to cash in jump into the arena of assisted suicide. From NewsBiscuit – The News Before It Happens… Homeopath to start offering ‘assisted-suicide’ remedy A homeopath in Banbury has decided to take politics into her own hands and start offering an assisted-suicide […]
There’s new blog entry from Mike Ervin at Smart Ass Cripple. The Smart Ass is no dummy. All of the Republicans vying to be president are talking about the sacrifices that must be made by Americans – except for the gazillionaires who have millions stashed away in Switzerland, the Caymans, and other sheltering locales, Mike […]
I love The Onion. I’m pretty sure that the writers aren’t taking a position on euthanasia here, but doing what satirists do best; they’ve taken a well-known, overused, emotionally manipulative and predictable script – and then twisted the context. I apologize for the lack of captioning, but I couldn’t pass this up. If there’s a […]
As promised, here’s the second feature for our very first Dark Humor Weekend, a commercial for euthanasia from the Numa Network: Come back tomorrow for more serious discussion and sharing of NDY-related issues.
Regular reader are familiar with this blog’s occasional visits to humor, comedy and satire dealing with NDY-related topics. Due to some searching I did this morning, we’re having our first “Dark Humor Weekend.” The first offering is a terrific send-up of the all-too-familiar portrayal of “sympathetic” family members who facilitate the suicides of their spouses. […]
I love The Onion. This is a pretty deadly picture of what bipartisan cooperation could look like in terms of tackling the budget deficit. (Just kidding – really) I apologize for the lack of captioning, but I couldn’t pass this up. If there’s a good transcriptionist reading this, I promise you gratitude and credit if […]
It’s been a long couple of weeks. The month started with the death of Jack Kevorkian and a nonstop barrage of eulogizing and mythologizing his life. This week, we had the sorry spectacle of Terry Pratchett’s “infomercial” on assisted suicide featuring the spectacle of another rich disabled man drinking some poison and dying on camera. […]
Back on April 1, 1998 I sent out an obviously bogus press release from an email address I reserved for just such purposes. It was an attempt at some (I thought) outrageous satire, taking pro-assisted suicide arguments based on “quality of life” to one of their many logical conclusions. What would happen, I wondered, when […]
