Humour and death
By grandpa_lash
@grandpa_lash (5225)
Australia
August 14, 2012 8:42pm CST
We have, in Australia, a weekly TV panel show which is possibly unique. There is a presenter, five guests, and a studio audience which asks questions (along with the watching audience through Tweeting and Facebook), and the panel of guests includes politicians (recently our Prime Minister was one), intellectuals, political activists, writers, performing arts names, etc. The most recent one included ethicist Peter Singer, British conservative political writer Phillip Blond, Dr. Cassandra Goldie, the CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service, Mark Butler, the federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, and Pru Goward, the NSW state Minister for Family and Community Services and the Minister for Women. The subjects the panel discussed included euthanasia, and they got round to discussing Do Not Resuscitate medallions.
One panellist brought up people who have DNR tattoos on their chests, and mentioned one woman who had it tattooed in full in large letters across her boobies, but just in case she fell face down, she had "Please Turn Over" tattooed on her back. I laughed like a drain lol.
Can you find humour in death?
Lash
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
17 Aug 12
Please turn over! What a classic!
I have not heard of "Do Not Resuscitate medallions" before. Are they worn by those who have debilitating illnesses that they wish to be rid of for good. Those who wish to die but do not wish to take their own life? Or is is a religious thing? 
So what show were you watching? Something on ABC?
I have not heard of "Do Not Resuscitate medallions" before. Are they worn by those who have debilitating illnesses that they wish to be rid of for good. Those who wish to die but do not wish to take their own life? Or is is a religious thing?
So what show were you watching? Something on ABC?
@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
19 Aug 12
Ah. Q&A. Yep, I know of it but have never watched it. On the rare occasion that our TV is on, it is usually because the family are watching something. I generally join in, but do not gravitate naturally towards the TV these days.
When I mentioned the word religious I was thinking more along the lines of a religious cult rather than your everyday Christian based or Eastern religion. I remember seeing certain tags on people many years ago for medical conditions. I remember one workmate who was a haemophiliac (thank you spell check for that one) and also some Jehovah Witnesses that I used to be friends with had a card in their wallet from memory which stated not to give them blood transfusions.
I agree with you. Let me go in peace rather than keeping me alive hooked up to a machine or living in pain. I am with the right to die people on this one. If people wish to go, then let them. 
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
15 Aug 12
Well I couldnt help laughing at that level of precaution..lol. Nice sense of humor. :) Out here, it is a solemn thing. Nobody would dare..secretly though all daughters in law have a few remarks about their mothers in law, which at times are nasty though they passes off as humour out here.
Good one..
@toyota4k (1208)
• Philippines
16 Aug 12
It was past 8 PM when me and my wife arrived at a wake of one relative which was about 3o kilometers from our home. While seeping some coffee, one remarked welcoming us said, "It's good of you for coming despite the distance and the bad weather brewing out there."
I made a humorous reply saying after expressing our condolences. ".... of course I am obliged to come considering that he is not only a friend but a relative as well. I made it a point to come upon notification so that you would also come in return when my time comes to stretch my body inside my own coffin."
