Sir Terry Pratchett has made me laugh until I cried.
Now’s he’s made me cry until I laughed.
For those of you who know Sir Terry Pratchett and his writing, it came as an indelible shock in 2008 when he announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
Now he’s announced in this year’s Dimbleby Lecture that he wishes to choose when and how he dies. In the lecture he opines:
“If I knew that I could die at any time I wanted then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.“
And
“It’s that much heralded thing, the quality of life that is important. How you live your life, what you get out of it, what you put into it and what you leave behind after it. We should aim for a good and rich life well lived, and at the end of it, in the comfort of our own home, in the company of those who love us, have a death worth dying for.”
We look forward to many, many more books from you, Sir Terry, and we look forward even more to hearing that you has chosen your moment to make that long-delayed move to Discworld, where you can continue to satirize about the foibles of mankind.
