X-Message-Number: 31054
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: William O'Rights <>
Subject: I beg to differ Basie

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I beg to differ Basie,

On June 7 1996 at 9:30 while driving my motorcycle on I-95 on my way to Old 
Orchard Beach I lost control of my motorcycle and at speeds unknown and crashed 
sideways into a guardrail snaping my right femur bone from my body, shattering 
my pelvic bone and I broke two disks in my spine. The link below is a fairly 
graphic picture of me in the hospital, I recommend that you enlarge it by double
clicking on the pic so you can get a closer look Basie. Note the rods jetting 
out of my body in the hip region. You can see where my leg bone blasted out the 
side of my muscle and skin. I have had the pleasure of looking at my bone marrow
from a leg that was attached by only my inside leg muscle. You can actually see
my leg muscle from where they could not stretch my skin back because a chunk 
was missing.

http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=23580&view=findpost&p=263212

The fourth of July this year I had a tumor encasing my heart and shutting it 
down. I have had since last October bone cancer that is eating away at my left 
femur and other various part of my body. I've sat here more than a few times 
coughing and splattering blood over my computer screen from lung cancer. 

I certainly don't want to minimize your experience with pain, but a nice neat 
planned hip replacement done in a hospital setting doesn't really compare with 
having it shattered against a cold hard steal guardrail on the turnpike. When I 
say no amount of suffering could deter me I'm not speaking in hypothetical terms
Basie, I'm speaking from experience. I know what I am talking about.

Pain is friend and foe alike, adversary and ally. I hate its frequent 
companionship and yet it challenges me. It energizes my senses, in the presence 
of pain I become alert. I have learned to embrace my pain. Pain confirms that, 
at my heart-core, life, not death, is the authority. The dead do not feel pain. 
Pain is the affirmation of the living.

I assure you that there will NEVER come a time when I will beg to be put to 
death. And I'll say it again Basie, NO AMOUNT OF SUFFERING WILL DETER ME.
Oh yeah Basie, one more thing you might want to note in that pic, I'm smiling.
Live Long and Well Basie
William O'Rights


      
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