THE WISH TO DIE AND DESIRE TO LIVE
AGAINST THE FORCE OF NATURE

Who am I to fear the flu soon to come — when (not if ) a virus out of Asia mutates to cause another pandemic that will come again and again from now till the end of time ?

After all, only a few minutes had passed, listening to the same station, that I was up in arms because the Bush administration was not about to let me die in my sleep. They preferred that I die in agony.

Evidently, death in bed from flu is qualitatively lousy compared to death in bed from pills that somehow put you to sleep before you know it.

For the life of me I do not get the reason some people care how I die —when it's none of their business.

Just to think of the wasted legal thought that will go into reaching a decision on the Oregon law is enough to kill me without any pills at all.

In fact, I think if the court sides with these meddling fools I'll work up a coronary to have my own way — and save the cost of complying with any Oregon-like law.

Bird flu is another matter.

I can imagine a huge program to build vaccine factories flexible enough to produce billions of doses of new vaccines very shortly after a virus mutates into something new and virulent.

Of course I don't know if such a defense against nature is possible. But it seems worth a try.

Cipro, the drug that seems to fight anything, (i.e.,  a non-vaccine approach,) also come to mind. We used it against the anthrax scare in 2002.

It was also prescribed for me to prevent infection after bypass surgery. It cured every chronic infection I was host to for years before I took it.

Just to bring this to a conclusion — I've got a stock of cipro and barbiturates — so I am prepared to live or die on my own terms.

Come what may, no court is going to tell me what to believe when it come to religion, life and death.

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