Is this beautiful rendering of a “Death of a Slave” an erotic meeting of impermanence and inevitability — or is it more a cold, moral homily, against the wages of living a sacred life?
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Since 1992 people have been inking Death Wishes on their chests as permanent tattoos to prevent medical resuscitation in the event of a life-threatening injury. This process is called the “DNR Tattoo” or the “Do Not Resuscitate Tattoo” and its effect is a fascinating enlightenment against the values and morality of an advanced culture where we are all taught to value life and to save the heartbeat at all cost.
Is Apple’s Original Boy Genius, Steve Jobs, dying? He looked purely awful and wan and bony during yesterday’s WWDC conference as he presented the new, and rather bland, iPhone 2.0.
Nothing bends the will of the living more than a government-injected death, and with the recent Supreme Court ruling that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment — the killings will continue.
Do Americans always look for the worst in the best? Is the one thing we universally share with each other a national Death Wish?
The great American Playwright Eugene O’Neill said, in the early 1900’s:
“The greatest challenge to mankind over the next century will be the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God.”
You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.
John Ritter’s widow is suing her husband’s doctors for $67 million dollars. She claims the lawsuit isn’t about money, but rather about admitting wrongdoing.
Christian Brando is dead. Was he killed by his life — or by the sins of his dead father, Marlon Brando?
We are a society that covets fame.
When Brad Renfro dies, we pause and listen for details.
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