Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Today's Dead Zone Lesson
Conversation in Bathroom Today at 1210 MST [AZ does not observe DST] While Bathing Mom:
Mom: "Where's Dad?"Today's Dead Zone Study Questions:
Me: "Your dad or my dad?"
Mom: "My dad."
Me: "He's dead, Mom. He died in 1980. He's been dead for twenty-six and a half years, now."
Mom: "Where's your dad?"
Me: "He's dead. He died in 1985, twenty-one and a half years ago."
Mom: "Oh."
Pause.
Mom [comic tone]: "Where are you?"
Me [serious tone]: "I'm dead. I'm not sure when I died, but I think I've been dead for, oh, twenty, thirty years, give or take."
Mom [mock surprise]: "Why didn't you tell me?!?"
Me [serious tone]: "Didn't seem like it would make a difference."
Mom: "You've got a point. It hasn't made a difference."
- Is Mom dead?
- How do we know?
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Originally posted by Anonymous: Wed Oct 11, 09:11:00 PM 2006
Oy, I just posted a comment and then blogger deleted it...grrr...anyway, i think it is an interesting issue. When does someone with late stage Alzheimer's die - with their body or with their mind?
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Oy, I just posted a comment and then blogger deleted it...grrr...anyway, i think it is an interesting issue. When does someone with late stage Alzheimer's die - with their body or with their mind?
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