18 year resident in Italy questions the truth behind the Italians' claim to fame: Their 'Quality of Life' while providing an irreverent insider's view of Life in Italy.
Berlusconi taking us Back to the Future?
Posted 02-10-2009 at 09:25 PM by burntbythetuscansun
Eluana, Italy's Terry Schiavo, after 17 years living in a total vegetative state finally breathed her last breath. May she and Terry both rest in peace. I won't go on about the amount of political maneuverings, legal loopholes and misconceptions that accompanied her passing (Berlusconi's statement, 'well, she can still reproduce' is just the most inane of pronouncements made on her -- or his rather -- behalf).
And while I won't go into the implications of this decision to discontinue her feeding tube (which include political, human rights, constitutional, religious posturing and street protests; not to mention the family's own right to privacy), I'd just like to say that perhaps Berlusconi, in his eternal quest for the fountain of youth, was actually serious.
After all, I'm sure with his hair plugs, facelifts, and incessant insinuations of sexual prowess (I'm sure he must have his very own private Viagra pharmacy), he would like to live on forever; even if that means being kept indefinitely on a feeding tube.
I won't be surprised if he's taken all his money and arranged to have himself frozen in a cryonic suspension case, so he can come back later and appear on talk shows in the Year 2310 next to 20-somethings in bikinis. Who knows? He may still have his singing voice.
But, this idea that we should be keeping people alive just because we can strikes me out of something like the 1978 Michael Crichton flick, Coma. Just think: there are not enough beds in Italy to house the temporarily infirm, where will we put the bodies? Maybe this is Berlusconi's true solution for Malpensa Airport. Use the hangars for hangers. That might explain the secretive meetings with officials in Milan.
Whether or not you agree, it certainly beats the Soylent Green solution.
And while I won't go into the implications of this decision to discontinue her feeding tube (which include political, human rights, constitutional, religious posturing and street protests; not to mention the family's own right to privacy), I'd just like to say that perhaps Berlusconi, in his eternal quest for the fountain of youth, was actually serious.
After all, I'm sure with his hair plugs, facelifts, and incessant insinuations of sexual prowess (I'm sure he must have his very own private Viagra pharmacy), he would like to live on forever; even if that means being kept indefinitely on a feeding tube.
I won't be surprised if he's taken all his money and arranged to have himself frozen in a cryonic suspension case, so he can come back later and appear on talk shows in the Year 2310 next to 20-somethings in bikinis. Who knows? He may still have his singing voice.
But, this idea that we should be keeping people alive just because we can strikes me out of something like the 1978 Michael Crichton flick, Coma. Just think: there are not enough beds in Italy to house the temporarily infirm, where will we put the bodies? Maybe this is Berlusconi's true solution for Malpensa Airport. Use the hangars for hangers. That might explain the secretive meetings with officials in Milan.
Whether or not you agree, it certainly beats the Soylent Green solution.
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Sun, I agree with you. Maybe they should send him off to live on the Bush ranch in Texas, they speak the same language.Posted 02-17-2009 at 08:46 PM by Danno
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Poor Italy saddled for so many years with such a fascist pig. This neoconservatism spread like a disease taking the lead form Bush...France is stuck with Sarcosy, UK and Israel have theirs...hopefully they will wake up and follow America's lead again...back to liberal under the sunPosted 06-06-2009 at 09:08 PM by Brian Appleton
