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2012-09-06 02:17 2958993 Anonymous (Terry Pratchett.jpg 398x599 31kB)
Do it fagot.

5 min later 2959002 Anonymous (crying-cat.gif 320x225 2636kB)
:(

6 min later 2959004 Anonymous
Man what a pussy.

9 min later 2959008 Anonymous
>>2959002 >>2959004 This thread is mandatory sage, bozos.

11 min later 2959014 Anonymous
This dudes a god faggots. OBE BITCHES!

14 min later 2959023 Anonymous
>>2959014 That's Sir Dude to you, peasant.

20 min later 2959038 Anonymous
Suicide watch nigga kill yourself.

26 min later 2959052 Anonymous
What the fuck is this shit?

2 hours later 2959270 Anonymous
>>2959052 Terry Pratchett is an assisted suicide supporter and plans to do it himself. "Do it fagot." Is a tired meme.

2 hours later 2959293 Anonymous
>>2958993 my sads kicked in

2 hours later 2959313 Anonymous
Why would a guy so awesome want to kill himself? To tired of all that sweet sweet groupie poon?

2 hours later 2959314 Anonymous
>>2959313 his alzheimers is advancing

2 hours later 2959330 Anonymous
>>2959314 Shit, now I feel like a jerk. But is altimers generally considered bad enough for euthanasia? i though that was only for brain dead folk.

2 hours later 2959339 Anonymous
>>2959330 it's a progressive disease that will in due time cause the sufferer to lose control of his mental competancy and you can imagine what that means for a person whose career is sustained by his mind...

3 hours later 2959364 Anonymous
>>2959339 Pretty sure it's equally bad for everyone, yo. Having said that... is Alzheimer's always that bad? Obviously being aware of losing who you are must suck, but can you bust through that stage and get to a kind of zombified contentment?

3 hours later 2959368 Anonymous
Wait, so is he dead yet? If he ain't dead I can't see any reason to post here about him.

3 hours later 2959374 Anonymous
>>2959368 I mean, his books are entertaining, but there's nothing really there to discuss beyond which you book you think started the overall decline (for me it would be somewhere between Hogfather and Thief of Time).

3 hours later 2959391 Anonymous
>>2959374 I think the decline's really hard to assess, though. Lots of people (me included) got into the books when they were kids, so they're going to be more attached to whichever ones they read back then. Personally I remember Feet of Clay and Carpe Jugulum seeming worse, but that could have just been my tastes changing.

4 hours later 2959467 Anonymous
The Science of Discworld will always be my fav.

4 hours later 2959471 Anonymous
It's kind of hard to argue when a knighted, critically-acclaimed, beloved, bestselling, superstar novelist says, "My brain is disappearing, I'd like to die peacefully before it's completely gone, and I think I have that right."

4 hours later 2959475 Anonymous
>>2959374 Seriously? I think "Making Money" is one of his best.

20 hours later 2960806 Anonymous
OP here. Do it fagot.

20 hours later 2960819 Anonymous
I don't know there was a linear decline in his work so much as greater variations in quality with a gradual tendency towards inferior works. For instance, you got a stellar release like The Truth sandwiched between "meh" to bad books like Thief of Time and The Fifth Elephant, with several standouts afterwards, like Making Money and Going Postal. My assessment is, of course, objective truth.

21 hours later 2960911 Omar B
>>2959364 Big Pratchett fan coincidentally. But my grandmother died of alzheimers. It got pretty bad but the worst was the years leading up. She was physically fine for many years but her mind was not there. Not even knowing her own sons and daughters including my father. I don't think I've ever seen a thing as sad as my grandmother not knowing who my father, her eldest son is. It's also weird how they do hold onto some things. She remembered my mother just fine even though my father and her separated in 1990 and he did remarry. She would still ask daily for Marcy, even cry about it if someone were to remind her about the divorce. Towards the end I could not visit her. She didn't recognize me as me, she thought I was my uncle who had died tragically in the 80's, that is when a name did occur to her.

21 hours later 2960952 Anonymous
>>2960911 Yeah, Alzheimer's is not pretty. I worked at a nursing home where one of the residents was in its early stages. She was a former writer and must have once been very sharp, judging by her better days. However, most of the time she'd just keep having the exact same conversations over and over again and would get violent if her routine was disturbed in any way.

21 hours later 2960962 Anonymous
>>2960952 >she'd just keep having the exact same conversations over and over again and would get violent if her routine was disturbed in any way. Are you sure she wasn't just a tripfag?

22 hours later 2961152 Anonymous
He even has a rare early-onset form of it.

35 hours later 2962181 Anonymous
>b-but it just makes you forget stuff its not that bad! TL:DR - your brain is putrefying from the core outwards, melting whilst you are still alive. eventually the parts that tell your muscles to move will be so much putrefaction and waste in the rotten hollow of your caving in thinking engine. you arent just losing yourself, you are feeling your brain decompose before you die and it cant be stopped.

35 hours later 2962188 Anonymous
>>2960962 what's the matter with you?

36 hours later 2962210 Anonymous
>>2962188 Not that anon, but that comment was pretty funny. I smiled.

49 hours later 2963724 Anonymous
Still seems odd given how common it is and how we aren't exactly seeing Old Folks jumping out of windows. Also, how the hell hasn't this 404'd already?

50 hours later 2963758 Anonymous (1320606980283.png 1455x453 165kB)


50 hours later 2963786 Anonymous
>>2963724 /lit/ is v slow

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