Terry Pratchett Faces The Reality of Death

Terry Pratchett the amazing writer who sold his first story when he was just thirteen years old, the money he earned gave him enough cash to buy a second-hand typewriter.

He always works with humour and his stories are always full to the brim with imagery and different ways of viewing the fantasy world we could live in.

Cover of The Colour of Magic (Discworld)

This legendary, clever man with the capacity to dream up wild and wonderful literary chronicles has won numerous literary awards, was named an Officer of the British Empire “for services to literature” in 1998, he has received four honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Bath, Bristol and Portsmouth. His novels have been translated into 33 different languages and have sold around 45 million copies.

The author who is going steadily into an uncertain future with Alzheimer’s says he wants to help set up a tribunal to help those with the many incurable diseases like Alzheimer’s, terminal cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and many more end their lives with the help of doctors, in assisted suicide.

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On Monday Terry spoke of his ideas in a lecture with Richard Dimbleby.

Terry said in his lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, that the “time is really coming” for assisted death to be legalised.

A poll for the BBC one program Panorama, did say most people did support assisted suicide for people that were terminally ill.

Terry as a young journalist was no stranger to suicide as he sat in regularly at the coroner’s court. The corner’s used the terms “insanity and disturbed mind” when someone had taken their own life. Terry dislikes the term, assisted suicide to end an incurable life because of this and because he knows that anyone one with an incurable disease would have carefully consider the options before asking to die.

I had already written an article on human Euthanasia a few month back, I am a strong believer in this as a way to die and having an incurable disease myself I would like it as an option, as with Terry we are suffering enough through life, lets go peacefully into death. http://socyberty.com/issues/euthanasia-the-ending-of-a-human-life/

I want with all my heart for Sir Terry to get what he is fighting for in his last battle of life. Voluntary euthanasia has been controversy for many years in this Country. Let us die in peace at home in this Country and not have to travel to a foreign land to receive our last rights and wishes, make it legal in the UK to get help from doctors, to die peacefully when we need to.

 2/2/10 lillyrose