X-Message-Number: 31054 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:54:53 -0700 (PDT) From: William O'Rights <> Subject: I beg to differ Basie --0-1123448784-1221364493=:51856 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 --0-1123448784-1221364493=:51856 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31054