Tim doesn't FTR

[Ted Jackson jr.]

> Hardman DK writes:
>
> > "Sadly"?  Does anyone really want to watch someone kill themselves? Why?
> > Leary's idea to commit suicide on the net was, to my mind, pretty
> > ghoulish, and I hope he was simply trying to stir up controversy rather
> > than really intending to do it.  Actually doing it would have been really
> > sick, though not as sick as anyone actually wanting to get some
> > voyeuristic thrill by watching him do it.
>
I may seem ghoulish on the surface, but wouldn't the idea have been
to poke fun at our whole concept of death?  I think TL was simply
saying: we have this morbid fixation with death, but death is nothing
more than another human function, like breathing.  And, of course,
the whole DFTR idea of life as cyclic experience--one life ends as
another begins, the inevitablility of death, our need to come to
grips with it, etc...
theo







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