Terry Pratchett starts process to take his own life. Sir Terry Pratchett, the fantasy writer who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2008, said yesterday he had started the formal process that could lead to his own assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett says he has received consent forms requesting assisted suicide but has not yet signed them.
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posted by Fizz
on Jun 13, 2011 -
132 comments
Before anybody gets a heart attack, he aten't dead. The Guardian has a
new interview with Terry Pratchett, talking about his writing and state of health.
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posted by kmz
on Sep 3, 2010 -
46 comments
Like many fans of Terry Pratchett, I've heard him lecture several times. He toured regularly, so most of us got to hear him before he fell ill. I remember him waxing cynical about the people who optioned his early works for film, and I remember the elation that I felt when his works finally made it onto the screen. The animated adaptations of
Wyrd Sisters and
Soul Music were fan fodder, but the later live action version of
Hogfarther was popularly successful and was soon followed by another,
The Colour of Magic. The latest film based on his work,
Going Postal, ends with a
cameo by Pratchett and the final words "well, that's a bit of an
embuggerance".
posted by teppic
on Jun 25, 2010 -
35 comments
It’s only natural that if you wish to present yourself as a well-read person, a certain degree of complete bullshit is required. There’s no shame in lying about what you’ve read. There’s only shame in getting caught. Then you look like a doofus, and an illiterate one at that... How to lie about books.
posted by Artw
on May 28, 2009 -
73 comments
