Patrick Swayze

[cS bIsHoP]

^I'm sure he'd rather continue to live.

Naturally. Yet, feeling pity for somebody who has had heaven on earth, while millions others have died from the same illness, the same suffering, nameless, gone and nobody gave a fuck, is moronic. We care more about idiots on TV then our goddamn neighbor.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Naturally. Yet, feeling pity for somebody who has had heaven on earth, while millions others have died from the same illness, the same suffering, nameless, gone and nobody gave a fuck, is moronic. We care more about idiots on TV then our goddamn neighbor.

Your taking this out of context. I and others have said how they have lost someone close to them from similar or the same cancer. It's not as if they feel more grief for Patrick than they do/did for their loved ones, but its still sad to see someone go through this. If you have seen someone die from cancer you know that anyone even famous actors go through HELL. I don't see how his bank balance changes how much compassion you have for someone.

 

[Bigg Limn]

Naturally. Yet, feeling pity for somebody who has had heaven on earth, while millions others have died from the same illness, the same suffering, nameless, gone and nobody gave a fuck, is moronic. We care more about idiots on TV then our goddamn neighbor.

Its not that we care more for celebrities than other "normal" people - its the fact that we hear more news about celebrities than we do about average joes. Its sad 2 C anybody die from a horrible disease like this; yes death is just a part of life, but that doesnt mean you shouldnt feel pity on those who go before they time, or suffer as they go.

 

[ill-matic]

no matter who it is; celebrity or not celebrity, it's very sad to watch someone wither away slowly and painfully

 

[_carmi]

^exactly.

 

[cS bIsHoP]

Besides that he's lived a better life than most ever will, Swayze will be remembered by millions, and right now many people care for him and are sad for him, most people don't have that luxury, so I'm saying it's not that sad. Most people's memories are but a dewdrop from a tree.

 

[Jokerman]

Being a celebrity is heaven on earth? By what warped standards? I know, by those who are not one.

 

[Freedom Froggy]

Besides that he's lived a better life than most ever will, Swayze will be remembered by millions, and right now many people care for him and are sad for him, most people don't have that luxury, so I'm saying it's not that sad. Most people's memories are but a dewdrop from a tree.

more money doesnt equal heaven on earth.. but i would be the first in line to try out that theory..:cheesy:

 

[ArtsyGirl]

right now many people care for him and are sad for him, most people don't have that luxury, so I'm saying it's not that sad.

You have your own opinion and I accept that but I dont understand how more people around a dying person makes that person's death less sad? If you've watched someone labor for every breath in obvious pain you would know it doesn't matter if they have 100 people around them it doesn't take the pain away from that person.

 

[Bigg Limn]

I read an article @ work, Ill have to try and find the exact one later. But they said Swayze and his manager or something are upset by these claims, he said hes in good health (as good as anyone with cancer can be in) - and posted some supposed recent pix of him and his wife, if the ones he posted R real/recent he still looks in good health and like hes got a lot of life left ahead of him.

 

[cS bIsHoP]

You have your own opinion and I accept that but I dont understand how more people around a dying person makes that person's death less sad? If you've watched someone labor for every breath in obvious pain you would know it doesn't matter if they have 100 people around them it doesn't take the pain away from that person.

Can we agree that we all want to be remembered? It is only human, hell I want to be, even though I wish I had the courage and dignity to want be one of the many unidentified bodies of the battle of Saratoga. Then can we agree, that our whole life (not to compress it's meaning down to only this) is an accumulation of things to leave behind as a legacy, a remembrance? Swayze and all of us, know this truth, even if only subconsciously. He has that gift, of perpetual remembrance. I also maintain that to be rich and famous, you have to try pretty hard to be unhappy or live a unfulfilled life (unless your in a 2pac-esque situation, which was indeed, his fault) But I can see people wanting to jump down my throat for that one too, so lets not get into that. Realizing all this and to have so many people care about you, also, in a sense, love you, doesn't take away from pain? Not physically but emotionally? Certainly.

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Between not being remembered by ANYONE or having someone (family) be there to remember you then yes, I don't care if someone on a message board from America remembers me though.

Still I maintain that this doesn't change how I feel towards the kind of death he will experience. I hope he does have all his family/friends with him at that moment, if anything it brings comfort to those who will live on to know he didn't die alone.

 

[EDouble]

these papparazzis want him to do worse for "better pictures story more sales

Any time people nationa;ly or world wide put you in a grave before your in it & minimize your fight thats not special treatment thats atempted murder

peoples conversations not like

'patrick swayzes got cancer, plus hes famous it dont make sense"
"oh fuck him, hes got money"

?

 

[Flipmo]

There was a rumor going around that he already died.

Swayze came out and said that he isn't dead yet, and sent a picture of himself with his wife to most newspapers and thensome.

 

[Jokerman]

He said he was just waiting for the new Eminem album to come out before he died. Now he can go peacefully.

 

[Freedom Froggy]

He said he was just waiting for the new Eminem album to come out before he died. Now he can go peacefully.

"i didnt get all white presidents during my time on earth but ill be damned IF I die before EMinem wins the billboard charts!"