Reply #17: well he doesn't sound like much of a victim

[pitohui]

it sounds to me like he had the best of life and when his time ran out (kidney cancer plus criminal charges) he was 67 and it was time to go anyway, so all he really missed was the lingering suffering of a late stage cancer patient

there was a time when to die at 67 was to have lived a full life

i don't pity this man, i don't think he missed anything of what life had to give and he went out on his own terms and cut his suffering to end

the people i pity are the ones who are dying of a lingering cancer or another disease but have to keep working, because otherwise their family has nothing, or the ones who are accused of a crime they didn't commit because the gov't is too fucked to keep its paperwork straight (i've known friends to have tax issues hang over them for years until the IRS finally figured out the friend was right and the IRS was wrong)