Friday, September 21, 2007

My holidays

I'm in Laguna Verde. It's a place next to Valparaiso. I'm here with my uncle and his family.
This picture shows them.

My uncle's name is Carlos. He works in a drugstore. his wife likes gathering flowers and branches on the pathway, her name is Cristina, she makes handicrafts too. The girl on the picture is their daughter, her name is Carolina; my cousin is very intelligent, She enjoys reading Condorito and she tells funny jokes. The woman with lightblue shirt is Cristina's sister.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Ramón Sampedro's Testament

Ramón Sampedro was a great Spanish writer. The Movie "The Sea Inside" from Alejandro Amenabar, it is about his life.

Ramon got paralysis for thirty years and he was fighting in a court for his right of practicing euthanasia and end his life with dignity.(*)

In his book "Letters from Hell", he says:
<<"...the birth right is the beginning of a truth: the desire of pleasure. The right to die is the beginning of another truth: the desire of not suffering. The Ethical Reason puts Bad or Good in all the acts. A son conceived against the will of the woman is a crime. A death against the will of the person too. But a wished son conceived by love is a good. A wished death to leave someone of an irremediable pain, too. Any freedom can't be constructed on a tyranny. Any justice, on injustice or pain. Any positive good, on an unjust suffering...">>(*)

He died on January 12, 1998; when his friend, Ramona Maneiro helped him to suicide.

Ramón had problem with law and some people for his will. In his Testament, he says them:
<<"Srs. Judges, Religious and Political Authorities:
My conscience isn't trapped in my deformit, atrophied, unfeeling body , but It's in the deformity, atrophy and insensitivity of your consciences".
>>(*)