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Do it fagot.

>> No.2959002
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2959002

:(

>> No.2959004

Man what a pussy.

>> No.2959008

>>2959002
>>2959004
This thread is mandatory sage, bozos.

>> No.2959014

This dudes a god faggots. OBE BITCHES!

>> No.2959023

>>2959014

That's Sir Dude to you, peasant.

>> No.2959038

Suicide watch nigga kill yourself.

>> No.2959052

What the fuck is this shit?

>> No.2959270

>>2959052
Terry Pratchett is an assisted suicide supporter and plans to do it himself. "Do it fagot." Is a tired meme.

>> No.2959293

>>2958993
my sads kicked in

>> No.2959313

Why would a guy so awesome want to kill himself? To tired of all that sweet sweet groupie poon?

>> No.2959314

>>2959313
his alzheimers is advancing

>> No.2959330

>>2959314

Shit, now I feel like a jerk. But is altimers generally considered bad enough for euthanasia? i though that was only for brain dead folk.

>> No.2959339

>>2959330
it's a progressive disease that will in due time cause the sufferer to lose control of his mental competancy and you can imagine what that means for a person whose career is sustained by his mind...

>> No.2959364

>>2959339
Pretty sure it's equally bad for everyone, yo. Having said that... is Alzheimer's always that bad? Obviously being aware of losing who you are must suck, but can you bust through that stage and get to a kind of zombified contentment?

>> No.2959368

Wait, so is he dead yet? If he ain't dead I can't see any reason to post here about him.

>> No.2959374

>>2959368
I mean, his books are entertaining, but there's nothing really there to discuss beyond which you book you think started the overall decline (for me it would be somewhere between Hogfather and Thief of Time).

>> No.2959391

>>2959374
I think the decline's really hard to assess, though. Lots of people (me included) got into the books when they were kids, so they're going to be more attached to whichever ones they read back then. Personally I remember Feet of Clay and Carpe Jugulum seeming worse, but that could have just been my tastes changing.

>> No.2959467

The Science of Discworld will always be my fav.

>> No.2959471

It's kind of hard to argue when a knighted, critically-acclaimed, beloved, bestselling, superstar novelist says, "My brain is disappearing, I'd like to die peacefully before it's completely gone, and I think I have that right."

>> No.2959475

>>2959374

Seriously? I think "Making Money" is one of his best.

>> No.2960806

OP here.

Do it fagot.

>> No.2960819

I don't know there was a linear decline in his work so much as greater variations in quality with a gradual tendency towards inferior works. For instance, you got a stellar release like The Truth sandwiched between "meh" to bad books like Thief of Time and The Fifth Elephant, with several standouts afterwards, like Making Money and Going Postal.

My assessment is, of course, objective truth.

>> No.2960911

>>2959364


Big Pratchett fan coincidentally. But my grandmother died of alzheimers. It got pretty bad but the worst was the years leading up. She was physically fine for many years but her mind was not there. Not even knowing her own sons and daughters including my father. I don't think I've ever seen a thing as sad as my grandmother not knowing who my father, her eldest son is. It's also weird how they do hold onto some things. She remembered my mother just fine even though my father and her separated in 1990 and he did remarry. She would still ask daily for Marcy, even cry about it if someone were to remind her about the divorce. Towards the end I could not visit her. She didn't recognize me as me, she thought I was my uncle who had died tragically in the 80's, that is when a name did occur to her.

>> No.2960952

>>2960911
Yeah, Alzheimer's is not pretty. I worked at a nursing home where one of the residents was in its early stages. She was a former writer and must have once been very sharp, judging by her better days. However, most of the time she'd just keep having the exact same conversations over and over again and would get violent if her routine was disturbed in any way.

>> No.2960962

>>2960952

>she'd just keep having the exact same conversations over and over again and would get violent if her routine was disturbed in any way.

Are you sure she wasn't just a tripfag?

>> No.2961152

He even has a rare early-onset form of it.

>> No.2962181

>b-but it just makes you forget stuff its not that bad!

TL:DR - your brain is putrefying from the core outwards, melting whilst you are still alive. eventually the parts that tell your muscles to move will be so much putrefaction and waste in the rotten hollow of your caving in thinking engine. you arent just losing yourself, you are feeling your brain decompose before you die and it cant be stopped.

>> No.2962188

>>2960962
what's the matter with you?

>> No.2962210

>>2962188
Not that anon, but that comment was pretty funny. I smiled.

>> No.2963724

Still seems odd given how common it is and how we aren't exactly seeing Old Folks jumping out of windows.

Also, how the hell hasn't this 404'd already?

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>> No.2963786

>>2963724
/lit/ is v slow