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|pages=352
|publisher=Transita
|date=19 Jan January 2007
|isbn=978-1905175321
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I liked the page on myspace. I'll seek this out.
On the more serious note, my experience is that power is in many ways connected to money: the old people who still hold the purse strings (or who chose to sit on the money their spouses might have left them) command significantly more power over not just their own lives but also the lives of others. As long as one keeps the Sister Ratcheds of the Social Services away, of course (I have a sneaky suspicion that the black lesbian daughter's lover might be nod towards that?).
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Sorry, I gave it to my mother, else I'd have sent it on! You're a clever one, aren't you? The black lesbian daughter's lover is indeed said nurse figure! I don't know about the money thing - all the old people in my family (well, discounting my parents who aren't yet old as in old and infirm) have lived in council houses and been utterly dependent on state benefits or family handouts. But I think it's social freedom Ladyma wants - she wants to commit suicide, but her first attampt has been foiled. And as an old person, she is unable to obtain the means for a further attempt. Who would be prepared to buy her enough paracetamol? And if she managed to buy them, where would she hide them? Do other people go in YOUR knicker drawer? Only children and old people have non-private knicker drawers. Y'see what she means?
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|name=Magda
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|comment= This is the best argument for acumulating some money in case I don't manage to get this successful stroke before I get infirm.
I think money helps, but also building certain distance and aloofness into one's life. A large detached house in couple of acres of garden also, I suppose. I simply cannot even start to imagine anyone going into my husbands' late grandmother's knicker drawer.
That's why an idea of a living will and assisted suicide appeals to me *personally* very much, though I am against legalisation in reality because of its massive potential for abuse and as a thin edge of a eugenics wedge, or something along these lines.
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