Notice of absence from Doggerel Dave
Not absent - still here!
Keep Calm and Carry On Poeming. 😂
Not absent - still here!
Keep Calm and Carry On Poeming. 😂
Owing to my long somewhat chequered life
There have been escapes from serious strife,
Escape from death or severe injury
And how I’ve avoided a mystery.
Survival, though, leads to contemplation
Not for the first time, of my extinction.
So will it be fast or will it be slow?
Something which if possible, I should know.
I hope to go gentle - mentioned before
As this is something I cannot ignore.
Now to achieve this if my end is slow
And too painful – I expect you know
That to die with dignity is my claim,
One I’ve advocated time and again.
Now please wake up, those who may be unsure
This is for me – you be free to deplore –
Just keep YOUR morality out of MY end.
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Doggerel Dave (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: This topic was one I explored in a school essay in 1959. Set by a teacher with deep beliefs ordered by that Old Time Religion. My position then was precisely as I have now, with the added ‘benefit ‘ accrued by the observation of other’s departure. “mentioned before”? See my “Finale” if you feel so inclined.
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Thought-provoking, Dave.
Thanks Jerry - sole purpose of the exercise.
There is no Limbo, don't ya know. A recent Pope abolished it! As if it depended on him?
Not that I believed in it in the first place anyway. I'm not R.C. either, so what I am doing poping (Pope-ing) around?
I'm definitely not qualified to advise you, orchi. I've never quite got my head round your antipathy to church, the institution and your hymns. But as with my rejection of anyone interfering with my choice here, I should not be critical of your choices either.
Thanks for calling in.
It's only some certain things that upset me within the church set-up. I'm not 'anti' it.
I seriously respect your right to choose whether to adopt a particular set of religious beliefs or not ... I believe it is a fundamental right .. I was raised in a non practicing Church of England household ... my wife's father was a very respected hospital chaplain .. yet I have followed a Buddhist way since my late teens ...
ps .. I think you have now left everyone in the picture .. 🙂
In this instance I am not being critical of other's religious beliefs, but the tendency to impose them on me by influencing legislation which inhibits my rights.
Your PS: Message received loud and clear. Think you are right - No one wants to be inflicted with downers too often. I won't flog it to death. 😊 Never mind - I've got other annoying stuff up my sleeve...
My P.S: what's with all these little squares which seem to be spreading like a ....?
Thanks Andy for your penetrating critique. Don't hesitate to call again when you have something you urgently need to communicate. 😊
Ha Ha 😂
Like it Dave. Totally agree with you on yhis one. My life, my choice
Great, Saxon - ' My life, my choice', I tried to find a place for, but couldn't fit it in. You have done it for me: Many thanks again.
One aims to please dontcha know!
We each have our own personal views on our own lives and we wish to go through them in a ways that we alone desire. Very good words Dave, may that dignity ALWAYS be with you.
Andy
Cheers Andy - your usual tolerant position. Sometimes I wish I could be as open to all difference as that.
Dave, was attempting to comment when my phone froze so sent blank screen. All I can say is your poem reflects my own thoughts. Nicely expressed.
Thanks Andy. 😊
I don’t want anyone to have to say of the departed “they are not suffering any more” for as you have so emotionally claimed “ to die with dignity” must be the end game.
Thanks very much, Mohan. And the suffering can be protracted and intense. Happy with all the support for this cause. Although where I am, support for reform is very high within the general population, it is politicians who are moving at snail's pace.
When young I thought I had the answers to this religious thing, then that changed, then changed and now changed again. In the changes I don't know anything so how could I tell anyone else what is right or wrong. We all evolve let each go at their own speed in their own direction.
Yes - but are everyone allowed to? Where I live, after years of campaigning voluntary assisted dying has only recently (very recently) been legislated into law. And it will be a slow process before it becomes an easy simple process uncurtailed by all manner of legal hoops and obstacles.....
Yes a difficult question. I am all in favor of individual choice, even in death but it is a thorny question with the issue of whether the person is mentally capable of making the choice, many attempted suicides later say that at the last moment they changed their mind too late to stop the fall from a bridge and are glad that they didn't die. Also what impact does your death have on others, family, friends etc. is this well thought out before? Yet if I was faced with intractable pain and imminent death I would want the choice.
Last sentence - precisely.
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