(1/6) Terry Pratchett Lecture about Alzheimer’s and assisted dying.

Richard Dimbleby Lecture from the Royal College of Physicians Sir Terry Pratchett – Shaking Hands With Death Orator: Tony Robinson

Alzheimers

This entry was posted by admin on April 26, 2010 at 1:59 pm, and is filed under Health Care. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

Comments (23)
Related Posts

#1 written by mattyrm 2 years ago

Wonderful, and touching. Thanks Terry.

Quote
#2 written by NemoUtopian 2 years ago

heh,a stunt Pratchettt.the man will go down swinging.

Quote
#3 written by zKa0sz 2 years ago

Alzheimer’s sufferer Terry pratchett has said he was ‘Flabbergasted’ when he was told of his knighthood. Just like he was ‘shocked’ when he saw it on BBC Breakfast and ‘amazed’ when he later read it in the newspaper.

Quote
#4 written by VeroniqueCG 2 years ago

My heartfelt support and appreciation of Pratchett and Tony Robinson for reading Pratchett’s lecture for Dimbleby annual lecture.

What an inspiration and a call to arms for rationality and compassion. What a denunciation of religiously inspired care and hospice for those who want another choice.

What namby pamby politicians who won’t take the bit between the teeth and allow people to determine their own lives and deaths.

Hmph. Makes me cross. Go Pratchett. Don’t stop in your efforts yet.

Quote
#5 written by tomasmatejicek 2 years ago

Is Tony Robinson reading the speech or does he remember it??

Quote
#6 written by KAF63 2 years ago

Give Terry a platform and he could move the earth.

Quote
#7 written by croutonfada 2 years ago

Thanks for uploading this hadr0n.

Quote
#8 written by Woofsie 2 years ago

I think he’s doing it from memory.. I don’t see him looking down anyway.

Quote
#9 written by ficklefiend 2 years ago

Good beard terry.

Quote
#10 written by stoobloke 2 years ago

Thank you for posting this. Very moving.

Quote
#11 written by RumpledQuiltSkin 2 years ago

He’s reading it from an Autocue. You can see the reflection in certain camera shots. There’s no way a human could remember a speech that long haha.

Quote
#12 written by Woofsie 2 years ago

Yeah, you’re right. It would be pretty impossible to remember something like that.

Quote
#13 written by FIGHTFANNERD3 2 years ago

no one wonts to die fact

humans dont have free will fact

Quote
#14 written by phizeroth 2 years ago

i love the moment captured around 9:05 .. i don’t know precisely what’s running through Terry’s mind there, but i can guess; and here’s to a great smile, a great beard, and a great guy. ^

Quote
#15 written by tomb1272 2 years ago

@KAF63 give him a platform to stand on, and a lever long enough he could move the world truckers?

Quote
#16 written by tomb1272 2 years ago

when he started struggling i started crying and i can’t stop :’(

Quote
#17 written by KAF63 2 years ago

Could be, I’ve never Tuckers.

Quote
#18 written by commanderkruge 2 years ago

Check your facts. Bugger off.

Quote
#19 written by commanderkruge 2 years ago

I didn’t even have to wait until he started to struggle.

I started crying pretty much right at the beginning of Terry speaking. I truly and deeply love this man, the stories he tells and what he – in my eyes – stands for: Humanity, wisdom, and the power of laughter.

And to know that from all the people in the world *he* has to suffer from Alzheimers simply breaks my heart.

Not that I believe anyone *else* deserves this condition, but noone else I feel that close to has got it…

Quote
#20 written by Paramedicguy 2 years ago

The universe trully is an uncaring place, to take the mind of a genius:( Pratchett is brilliant, satirical, educated and free thinking. And doesnt feel the need for a cruel malicious creator. A hero for all skeptical atheist everywhere, until he shakes hand with death long may he live:)

Quote
#21 written by commanderkruge 2 years ago

True. But up to now he still has got it and as I understand him he wants to share it until he can’t anymore. I just found out he’s writing “I shall wear midnight” at the moment, the fourth Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men book and *that* made me cry out of happiness…

Quote
#22 written by Aberforthette 2 years ago

It’s heart-breaking to see the disease actually having an effect on him.

Quote
#23 written by seonidh 2 years ago

The girl sitting next to Tony Robinson, is that Terrys daughter rhiannah?

Quote
Comment Feed for this Post