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US author Harper Lee dies

Hmmm, I thought she died a long time ago...
 
lb_on_teh_cb said:
never heard of him
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Her. She wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Interestingly, I never read the book, much to my wife's shock, so for Christmas she bought me a copy - along with several other novels. I just started reading it last week.
 
RIP Harper Lee


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I'll never get the endless posts that "someone died! Everyone freak out!" Geez, these people are almost always old or have some serious disease. People do die, you know. I wish people would just accept it and move on.
 
Cephus said:
I'll never get the endless posts that "someone died! Everyone freak out!" Geez, these people are almost always old or have some serious disease. People do die, you know. I wish people would just accept it and move on.
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Damn. Did someone piss in your cornflakes this morning?
 
Do not recall ever hearing of him and I never read the book. So it means little to me.

Plus, the guy was 89...I prey to God I am dead LONG before I am 89.

*Rant warning*

Why the 'f' anyone would want to live that long (outside of fear of death) is totally beyond me.

I congratulate the guy for dying before he reached 90.

I don't know if there is an afterlife, but surely it has got to offer more freedom and potential happiness then life at 90. And if you don't believe me, go to a retirement home and see how happy most of them are...especially the over 80's. Some are happyish. Most are not...not even close.

To me, the dumbest thing in the world (that is practised by many) is to save for retirement. Why people work their tails off during their youth/relative youth just so they can sit around in a decaying, semi-useless body past 75-80 is TOTALLY beyond me.

I get say seeing the world or whatever from 65 to about 75. But after that, I see NO REASON to continue short of fear of death.

And please save the 'my grandmother skydived when she was 245 years old' story. Big deal, she fell out of a plane...a guy in a coma an do that (with a push).

Live for today...not for tomorrow.

Anyway....now if you will excuse me, I have got some living to do...I am going to watch taped sports on my PVR while eating some tasty but fattening food.

Okay....so I am not ALWAYS living.

;)
 
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Harper Lee was the author of the American classic "To Kill a Mockingbird". May the people who took advantage of her in her dotage be haunted by Boo Radley forever.
 
Grand Mal said:
Damn. Did someone piss in your cornflakes this morning?
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Nope, just sick of people refusing to realize that death is a natural part of life.
 
Cephus said:
Nope, just sick of people refusing to realize that death is a natural part of life.
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Mourning a death is also natural.
Talking about a famous person's death is also natural.
Sharing and caring with your feelings about a topic is natural. Maybe not for the political minded but still.
There's nothing unnatural going on here.
 
Cephus said:
I'll never get the endless posts that "someone died! Everyone freak out!" Geez, these people are almost always old or have some serious disease. People do die, you know. I wish people would just accept it and move on.
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Tell that to the Scalia conspiracists. ;)
 
People, Harper Lee was a woman, not a man (can't tell if people were serious, but just in case...)
 
Ntharotep said:
Mourning a death is also natural.
Talking about a famous person's death is also natural.
Sharing and caring with your feelings about a topic is natural. Maybe not for the political minded but still.
There's nothing unnatural going on here.
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Mourning the death of someone you actually know, sure. Mourning the death of a name you heard a couple of times because they once did something noteworthy, not so much.
 
Geoist said:
Tell that to the Scalia conspiracists. ;)
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I think that's stupid too. People die. If it's not a direct relative or friend of yours, just accept it and move on.
 
Gaius46 said:
Her. She wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Interestingly, I never read the book, much to my wife's shock, so for Christmas she bought me a copy - along with several other novels. I just started reading it last week.
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One of my favourite books and one of the books that got me very interested in reading at a young age - the Hardy Boys serials were also a big motivator for me and reading.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
 
Cephus said:
Mourning the death of someone you actually know, sure. Mourning the death of a name you heard a couple of times because they once did something noteworthy, not so much.
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People often mourn the death of a person who had an effect on their lives - you don't have to know someone personally in order to be touched by their contributions to society and to your own life. As I noted above, To Kill A Mockingbird was a great book and contributed greatly to my love of reading that lasts to this day.

I feel sorry for a person who's so insular that they can't be touched by those who share time with them on this planet.
 
Cephus said:
I think that's stupid too. People die. If it's not a direct relative or friend of yours, just accept it and move on.
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I agree. But I don't see any of the doom-and-gloomers you are referring to.
 
Geoist said:
I agree. But I don't see any of the doom-and-gloomers you are referring to.
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I don't think I said anything about doom and gloom, just people who are terrified of death so they spend a lot of time mourning people who they don't even know. People need to grow up and deal with reality as it is.
 
DA60 said:
Do not recall ever hearing of him and I never read the book. So it means little to me.

Plus, the guy was 89...I prey to God I am dead LONG before I am 89.

*Rant warning*

Why the 'f' anyone would want to live that long (outside of fear of death) is totally beyond me.

I congratulate the guy for dying before he reached 90.

I don't know if there is an afterlife, but surely it has got to offer more freedom and potential happiness then life at 90. And if you don't believe me, go to a retirement home and see how happy most of them are...especially the over 80's. Some are happyish. Most are not...not even close.

To me, the dumbest thing in the world (that is practised by many) is to save for retirement. Why people work their tails off during their youth/relative youth just so they can sit around in a decaying, semi-useless body past 75-80 is TOTALLY beyond me.

I get say seeing the world or whatever from 65 to about 75. But after that, I see NO REASON to continue short of fear of death.

And please save the 'my grandmother skydived when she was 245 years old' story. Big deal, she fell out of a plane...a guy in a coma an do that (with a push).

Live for today...not for tomorrow.

Anyway....now if you will excuse me, I have got some living to do...I am going to watch taped sports on my PVR while eating some tasty but fattening food.

Okay....so I am not ALWAYS living.

;)
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My grandmother is 91. She didn't really experience many health issues until surviving being hit by a semi at 83. She does have stage 4 cancer now and is having some issues, but has not spent one day in an assisted living facility. She gardened every single year until the age of 86. I spent last Saturday playing some 4 handed Euchre with her. She is still sharp. She still enjoys life. In her case I think it has a lot to do with faith.

Her mother lived to 93 and 3 of her OLDER sisters are still alive and well and not in assisted living.

Anyhow, different perspective DA60.
 
Cephus said:
Mourning the death of someone you actually know, sure. Mourning the death of a name you heard a couple of times because they once did something noteworthy, not so much.
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Rubbish. I will agree to disagree. What you find unintelligent about emotion is strange to me. I was pretty upset about Robin Williams...not because I sat down with him on a daily basis and had lunch or drinks but because I loved his work, I found him brilliant, and a valuable human being who's death was a waste. I didn't cry for days but I talked about it being a loss and there was nothing wrong with that. I will never begrudge someone feeling a loss when their favorite author, world leader, artist, etc. dies.
I was emotionally shocked and blown away by 9/11 and I didn't know a single person who died in that attack. I didn't just shrug it off and move on though as with your suggestion.

It isn't about being scared, its about feeling a loss when a loss occurs. And everyone handles these things differently.
 
Ntharotep said:
Rubbish. I will agree to disagree. What you find unintelligent about emotion is strange to me. I was pretty upset about Robin Williams...not because I sat down with him on a daily basis and had lunch or drinks but because I loved his work, I found him brilliant, and a valuable human being who's death was a waste. I didn't cry for days but I talked about it being a loss and there was nothing wrong with that.
I was emotionally shocked and blown away by 9/11 and I didn't know a single person who died in that attack. I didn't just shrug it off and move on though as with your suggestion.

It isn't about being scared, its about feeling a loss when a loss occurs. And everyone handles these things differently.
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I didn't care much about Robin Williams and I've met him on several occasions. He wasn't a friend, he wasn't family, just because he was on TV and in the movies and did some decent comedy sketches in the past, that isn't enough to make me actually care that he was dead. More than 56 million people die worldwide every year, I don't see anyone mourning most of them.
 
CanadaJohn said:
One of my favourite books and one of the books that got me very interested in reading at a young age - the Hardy Boys serials were also a big motivator for me and reading.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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I recall the Hardy Boys, and the Bobbsey Twins, they were a bit more exotic than the home-grown "Famous Five", or "Swallows and Amazons"
 
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