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The author makes Tom out to be a loving son, but the mother writes a note to him saying that there was a rift between them and he didn't return her love. C'mon

by jbob2000 10y ago

The author makes Tom out to be a loving son, but the mother writes a note to him saying that there was a rift between them and he didn't return her love. C'mon Tom, you spend your life ignoring your mother, then she's gone and now you care about her life? This was a bit of a hit-piece on euthanasia, but also a lesson to spend time with your family before the inevitable happens (whether intentional or not).

pmoriarty 10y ago
"you spend your life ignoring your mother, then she's gone and now you care about her life?" Sometime you don't realize what you have until it's gone, as the old saying goes. Besides, whatever emotional or psychological issues existed between this person and his mother, they don't discredit the central points of this article, which were to bring attention to the complexities surrounding the question of euthanasia, to question whether euthanasia is being performed in cases which aren't hopeless after all, and to ask at what point should euthanasia be legally permitted.
fsloth 10y ago
Clearly you have no experience of dysfunctional relationships .
monodeldiablo 10y ago
"The author makes Tom out to be a loving son, but the mother writes a note to him saying that there was a rift between them and he didn't return her love. C'mon Tom, you spend your life ignoring your mother, then she's gone and now you care about her life?" An alternative reading of the situation might be that the mother was emotionally needy and manipulative, using her death to get the last word. It's extraordinarily common in teenage suicides, and this woman seemed similarly immature. Anybody with any experience of a dysfunctional relationship could identify the telltale signs of attention-seeking and conditional love. Tom seems very much the victim, here. As does his mother, frankly. It takes a very narrow, cynical view of psychology to claim that her mental state was irreversible, hinting at a serious, systemic lack of oversight and possibly even abuse. The ex post facto notification of the Tom's mother's death is particularly cruel.

pmoriarty 10y ago

"you spend your life ignoring your mother, then she's gone and now you care about her life?" Sometime you don't realize what you have until it's gone, as the old saying goes. Besides, whatever emotional or psychological issues existed between this person and his mother, they don't discredit the central points of this article, which were to bring attention to the complexities surrounding the question of euthanasia, to question whether euthanasia is being performed in cases which aren't hopeless after all, and to ask at what point should euthanasia be legally permitted.

fsloth 10y ago

Clearly you have no experience of dysfunctional relationships .

monodeldiablo 10y ago

"The author makes Tom out to be a loving son, but the mother writes a note to him saying that there was a rift between them and he didn't return her love. C'mon Tom, you spend your life ignoring your mother, then she's gone and now you care about her life?" An alternative reading of the situation might be that the mother was emotionally needy and manipulative, using her death to get the last word. It's extraordinarily common in teenage suicides, and this woman seemed similarly immature. Anybody with any experience of a dysfunctional relationship could identify the telltale signs of attention-seeking and conditional love. Tom seems very much the victim, here. As does his mother, frankly. It takes a very narrow, cynical view of psychology to claim that her mental state was irreversible, hinting at a serious, systemic lack of oversight and possibly even abuse. The ex post facto notification of the Tom's mother's death is particularly cruel.