More inconsequential nonsense.

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Date: 03 April 2005 17:55:02

Death seems to have been getting lots of publicity recently, and all roads seem to point in the direction of President Bush. Take the Schiavo case. Did anyone else hear Bush's speech about enforcing the right to life of all American citizens? I guess we can't really accuse him of hipocrasy on that point as the 140,000 (as quoted by Tony Benn, he's usually pretty reliable) Iraqi citizens killed by the war in Iraq obviously do not qualify. Why is President Bush so uncomfortable with the idea of death? I mean, he's had 58 years to get used to the idea that he's going to die, *allegedly* flew an F-102 in the Air National Guard (surely an activity which is likely to make you question your mortality, if it ever happened), was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale, did his degree in history (perhaps he skimmed over all the death bits?) and has been known to go for a drive after a shandy (and not the childrens kind....hic). Yet still he seems to be at an uncomfortable dis-ease with the idea of death. I admit that I'm not exactly impatiently yearning for my turn to float towards the white light, but that's different to the kind of pro-life-through-gritted-teeth-aversion-to-death which is evident in Mr Bush. I guess if you're the most powerful person in the most powerful country in the modern era, then the idea of having absolutely no control over your own life is kind of belittling. What was it Paul Tillich wrote? I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something like; "The more non-being you can take into yourself the more being you experience." On that basis it seems President Bush hardly exists.