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Wow! Excellent read! I can understand Arthur's reasoning, and Cynthia's too.
posted by
adnohr
on August 4, 2012 at 3:52 PM
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Pennoian
I find your writing wonderful, the subject in it's totality I find distasteful to my personal belief about death. I will keep reading because you write so well.
posted by
Justi
on August 2, 2012 at 7:20 PM
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CCT
“I think Arthur was a bit mean including is wife in the final act…,” you say.
Well, maybe yes maybe no. Hard to tell. For all we know, he may even have agreed to the joint suicide as an act of love. Cynthia left a footnote on Arthur’s Will, written and signed by her, in which she made it clear that the decision was hers and hers alone; that she was not coerced; and that she could neither imagine life without Arthur nor desired to live without him. She acted rationally to the very end; cancelled appointments, took her beloved dog to the vet to be put down, cancelled delivery of milk and newspapers, told the daily help not call the day after they intended to take the pills, and for the last few days of her life she wore jewellery which had sentimental value to her.
Neither had close relatives. Arthur had a grown daughter whom he saw only once, as a baby, and refused to have anything to do with her or with the child’s rich mother, although he remembered her in his Will, living her one of his pictures.
Cynthia had a sister whom she saw from time to time but they were not very close. She had no friends of her own. Arthur’s friends were her only friends.
So in these circumstances it is quite possible that she begged Arthur not to leave her behind. But we shall never know.
posted by
Pannonian
on August 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM
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Would it not be nice if one day we were in the pink and the next day a puff of smoke, I suppose one could jump ino a volcano, but it would be lot of effort. I think Arthur was a bit mean including is wife in the final act, but it strange how the mind reacts when under stress. 
posted by
C_C_T
on August 2, 2012 at 9:04 AM
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I continue to enjoy reading your entries. You touch upon the senses so well.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 2, 2012 at 7:03 AM
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That's the exact question I would have asked.
Very well written! Gruesome but it all rang true. Write on!
posted by
Pat_B
on August 2, 2012 at 4:24 AM
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