VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1364463955|CONTENT|As I return from getting my mother burnt yesterday, I note that all the pious religious claptrap (well-meaning and ultimately inoffensive, e.g. &quot;she&#039;s gone home&quot;, &quot;she lives again in Jesus Christ&quot;) spouted at the ceremony was infintely more meaningful and apposite than this chundering of blether from Banner.

The old dear slipped into a coma and died peacefully late p.m. with her husband, son, daughter and their spouses around the bed. For good or bad, that&#039;s how it was. Would have been nice for it not to have been in hospital (where she&#039;d been for some months), but that was not to be, and this aspect of her passing was ultimately outside of our control. So what right have we to demand of &quot;God&quot; the manner in which we want to end it?

In fact we have every right to take complete control over our death - just that it&#039;s illegal still for anybody else to help us out (and of course any death insurance is then null and void). But as such behaviour is utterly unacceptable to one of the religious persuasion (&quot;only God has the right to determine our time of death&quot;) surely it&#039;s hypocritical to pray for him to do you special favours on the topic so as to pander to your ego?|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|