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. … Continue reading Dark Humor Weekend, Part 1 – Euthanasia Comedy Sketch from “Your Bad Self”
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 … Continue reading Satire from The Onion: Social Security Reform Bill to Live Faster, Die Younger
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. … Continue reading The American Muslim (publication) – “Euthanasia: a Modest Proposal” by Rev. Frank Julian Gelli
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 … Continue reading Yesterday’s Joke Becoming Today’s Reality – Death Row and Assisted Suicide
