Death watch

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“Death watch” is the title of a great movie by Bernard Tavernier. The idea (science fiction) is to insert a camera in the brain of hired man who pretends to help a women who has been said she is going to dye, by a fake doctor. The whole thing is organized by the production of this particular “reality show” (or “candid Camera”?). TV spectators will observe the behavior of the woman, who, believing she is going to dye wants do dye in dignity, not chained to a maze of pipes (and by gosh: why should she?). I don’t’ know if a am sick (beside the sickness of age). But I have to behave liken Romy Schneider. How many of us (old ASD) live this kind of story? Nobody will ever know. But the menace of pipes and flebos is deadlier than death itself (again another movie: Mike Nichols “Wit”). The care of dying people pierces the vital shell (the “bubble”) and destroys the soul to save a body a little time before it becomes a corpse. Beware! (or watch).
All bernard Tavernier movies are abou death.
And of course Beckett "Malone dies".

Geez paolo - you scared the socks offa me.

He's good at that. He's a very dark and melancholy soul.

Well, I found this little dog with whom I found a deep passionate entente. At 75 she was the first creature with whom I had many, many happy moments and a perfect harmomy and love. I lived more that one year with her, night and day, walks, cares, food, reciprocal cuddlings. Unfortunately she was microchipped to the woman who came here for four years, two hours a day, to clean the kitchen and the bathroom. After 4 years of working for me she walked away
taking the dog. The "law" supports her. Now I can only fight against pipes and flebos.

I do not understand this. Please, what is a flebo?

flebo: Total parenteral nutrition (TPN), is the practice of feeding a person intravenously, bypassing the usual process of eating and digestion.

Where does the tube go if not into the stomach? Is it intravenous fluids you are talking about? The IV? I am not familiar with "flebo."

Forget about it.Y didn't see you were Slowmutant.

Dying is more unpleasant a thought than death in my opinion. The uncertainty of how it is going to pan out, especially.

I'm not much of a morbid thinker however, that is a symptom of depression.

Yes. I try not to think about it too much, especially as I get older, and hope maybe it will be as TS Eliot suggests, an 'awfully big adventure'.

About this I agree:Nothing to be frighteneed of is the last book of Julian Barnes. Here is the review in the NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books ... ref=slogin
I ordered it immediately and I will find it tomorrow in the bookshop.
I will say something more when I will have read it. Anyhow we suffer more from fear than from the thing itself, which even in case of a long agony, at some time is over (but Sharon? not that I liked him, he is brobably a vegetable). I like animals also because they don't think much about death.

One week of mourning for my little dog.