After reading this article that Terry Pratchett wrote http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37831676.html I commented this:


[info]w3nch
2009-08-02 11:25 pm (local) (link) DeleteTrack This
I really really agree with him. If we are able to judge this for our pets so readily, why on earth is it so terrible to be able to choose this yourself?

My mum finally told me when I was 21 that I might possibly have a defective gene that only shows up after I'm 40 but could potentially leave me needing 24hour care. If I do end up having it after I'm 40 and I still have my husband and possibly a lot of children by then, my worst nightmare would be him having to give up his life to look after a drooling brainless idiot who has no knowledge that he's even doing it.

If you truely have been sentenced to a living-death I know I would want to be given the chance to go.

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[info]lespapillons
2009-08-02 11:48 pm (local) (link) Track This
Why would you have a "lot of children" if you knew you might not make it past your 40's? Isn't that rather selfish? To bring children into the world, knowing they may be motherless at a young age.

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[info]lespapillons
2009-08-02 11:49 pm (local) (link) Track This
And furthermore, you could pass it on to your kids.

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[info]w3nch
2009-08-03 12:21 am (local) (link) DeleteTrack This
For the same reason my mother had me and my sister, to just stop living all-together would defeat the purpose of being here. She didn't tell me until I got married because that meant I was ready to have kids, which also means I'm now emotionally mature to make that decision (plus of course I told my husband about it the day she told me, to give him a chance to process the information and let him make a choice whether he thought that next 20years with me would be worth the risk, and thankfully he didn't questions it at all). And my decision is to not let what 'might' happen affect me for now.

If everyone who had a high-potential for developing some sort of disease or passing it on to a family member just up and killed themselves at the age of 22 there wouldn't be many adults left in the world. I'm lucky that I have a lot of good genes too and none of the usual diseases that plague most family histories; liver/lung/heart/pancreas/organ degeneration, cancers, alzthiemers, stomach problems, joint/muscle problems, stiff or brittle bones, blood diseases like leukemia etc.

I can't say I know anyone in my family who has had a horrible existence suffering from these things but I know that there is a 50% chance I could end up having one particular disease that I don't have to worry about starting to develop (if at all) at 40. I think it's kind of comforting to know what could go wrong with my body. (Not including terrible accidents of course, like being run over or whatnot) At least I know a lot more about myself than most who don't think about it at all until it's too late.

I could pass it onto my kids but I think they would like to be born and to experience a long happy life (touch wood) rather than never be able to make that choice. Plus who knows what they might have invented in 40 years time when it would be their time to find out.

Sorry for the long reply, I haven't spoken to many people about it so it's actually kind of great that you provoked this response from me, it 100% confirms what I was only 90% sure of before.

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

I made up a joke the other day, a few years too late but:

Did you hear the one about the twin towers?

boom boom!




Oh and I made Eva's Cookies but I didn't have the chocolate or the banana's... so they lacked in that sense but they were still really nice! I think I did something wrong as they didn't keep their star shapes and ended up as one big baking-tray sized cookie, hehe.

She has big lips, that means she's instantly the best person to have as a lipstick model/representative? Err no. Every time I see her I can't differentiate her from a child with spaghetti on it's face:


???



She's much less cute.

Hehe.

p.s. I just bought a corset I've been lusting after for ages AND it was on sale, how amazing is that!!?!

Last week I was being incredibly lazy and my eyebrows ended up somewhat bushier than normal. I've only just managed to get them sheared back down to a normal size. :\ Not great.

Talking of eyebrow:



Notice anything wrong with that picture?

Yeah, the daft bugger's have been fighting rather a lot which results in them biting off each others whiskers. So, now Guinness has no right-eyebrow-whiskers! At first I accused Kev of snipping them off but he pleaded innocent and then we caught them in the act.



Oh and Kev was telling me today to stop saying "That's your favourite" to lame things on TV (you know, the immature thing you used to do with your friends on the bus, i.e. "That's your dad" *points to ugly old man* and then the friend is all embarrassed and protests "No it's not!"). Because I had said it in front of her in reference to Bon Jo(bbies)vi and now she calls him up to let him know whenever they're on VH1!

I found this immensely amusing.

meow meow meowmeowmeowmeow!