Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Euthanasia Seeps Into Pop Culture


Euthanasia continues to seep into popular culture. Here's an anime video with lyrics about euthanasia (actually, like many, the author confuses assisted suicide with euthanasia).
Euthanasia
Drops of tears fell silently and disappeared into the ripples.
Enveloped by the tides of my sentiments, I closed my eyes. more

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Yawn: Another Has-Been Singer Thinks Suicide At 75 Is what She Wants


Yawn. Another washed up pop star from the 60s is trumpeting that she wants to die at 75, unless she feels “healthy” and is “not a burden.” See how this creeps into popular culture? “Well, if Cilla Black, who is my age, and who I remember from her heyday when I was a teen, says it’s OK to die if you’re sick or a bother, why she might have a point.”
Cilla Black says she wants to die at 75... hope she realises that's just EIGHT years away
Other women of her age are looking for ways to get the most out of their retirement.
But not Cilla Black. The singer and television presenter has given herself an eight-year shelf life – claiming that doesn’t want to live beyond 75.
The 67-year-old insisted she had no desire to ‘linger’ into old age. more
 
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