Lady Thatcher very unwell

[huncamunca]

The final countdown I have been reliably informed.

How shall we mark the day of her passing ?

[Anotherperson]

Get over it you peasant

[huncamunca]

A street party would be anice way to remember the Iron lady

[Brendan]

Has Bruce Dickinson died?

[KidKruger]

Yeah the UK politicians of recent times really put her to shame don't they, show her how it's done, like.

[PeckhamRose]

I read that her daughter has to remind her Mum that Denis has died. That must be sad. I had to remind my own Mum last week that her brother died years ago, and she cried so much. It's heartbreaking.

But this is THATCHER, so - you know - hope it HURTS, BITCH!

[Jah Lush]

Maggie Maggie Maggie! Die die die!

[Marmora Man]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> I read that her daughter has to remind her Mum

> that Denis has died. That must be sad. I had to

> remind my own Mum last week that her brother died

> years ago, and she cried so much. It's

> heartbreaking.

>

> But this is THATCHER, so - you know - hope it

> HURTS, BITCH!

PR - you disappoint me. Such a statement does not become a humanitarian.

[Alan Medic]

I have to say a couple of comments here are a bit sick.

[Moos]

I agree with Marmora Man, and was shocked to read PeckhamRose's post, given her vocation.

If you do know how painful it is - and I too well remember my mother's pain at having to gently remind her father every day that his beloved wife of more than 50 years had died - then I'm surprised you could wish that pain on anyone else.

Not much of an advertisement for a compassionate conductor of funeral services.

[Frankito]

Death is death people, show some respect.. I never quite made it into the Thatcherite fan club myself but, she is dying after all.. To think there are people out there who would take pleasure in that fact is rather sad. As a staunch believer in karma, it is not in our interest to wish ill on others as we will only get it back..

[Koko07]

Frankito Wrote:

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> Death is death people, show some respect.. I never

> quite made it into the Thatcherite fan club myself

> but, she is dying after all.. To think there are

> people out there who would take pleasure in that

> fact is rather sad. As a staunch believer in

> karma, it is not in our interest to wish ill on

> others as we will only get it back..

Probably that had already happened to some people and with that bad experience I wouldn't

bother to say anything eihter you are right Jah ! is best silence ZZZZZ

[sheilarose]

We found that it was much better, in the end, not to correct my mother's ideas that my father and her parents were still alive. When she asked for them, we said they'd be along in a minute and a minute later she had forgotten that she wanted them. Otherwise she was reliving their deaths again and again and again, which was so painful for her. She is beyond all that now, thank God.

[sphillips]

PeckhamRose, your comment is outrageous. Coming from a Humainst Funeral Celebrant, it is disgraceful.

[maxxi]

Do you think Labour will see her death as "...a good day to bury bad news"?

Come on, a little flippancy in the face of death is a great British tradition.

[jctg]

"I get distressed by people not wishing Thatcher dead. It's just unnecessary, thoughtless and insensitive toward her victims".

[LadyDeliah]

I must admit that I found PR's comment funny. It was obvious that she laid it out as a joke because she starts off sympathetic and ends with a twist.

Thatcher is hated by millions after what she did to the working class/North.

There are bound to be many jokes about her death, especially from people who felt harmed by her governance, so I suggest anyone who is likely to feel offended, get a thick skin. The jokes are likely to be coming thick and fast.

That's just life. Many people have waited a long time to see her get her comeuppance.

[Marmora Man]

I don't understand this vilification of Lady Thatcher. She resigned almost 21 years ago - which means that, unless you were an unusually political aware teenager, you have to 45+ to have any real memory of her time as Prime Minister.

Yet some strange myth and folk memory has grown around her time as PM - carefully nurtured by young socialists and uninformed lefties such as the chap photographed next to Ed Milliband recently.

You have to be older still to recall the 60s & 70s - a time when Bob Crow's approach to industrial relations would have been seen by his union colleagues as strangely wimpish. A time when the Cold War was really cold with geriatric Soviet leaders wanting to challenge the West. A time when client wars on behalf of East and West were routine. A time when Britain's industrial reputation was low - when Wilson devalued the ? and Healey invited the IMF to sort out Britain's finances. Britain was on its way to becoming an unregarded poor man of Europe - viewed much as look at Greece and Portugal today.

By robust leadership Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative administration '79 - '89 turned that situation around. Like all political administrations it ran out of steam toward the end but the changes made benefit us still.

[LadyDeliah]

No it benefited the South. The North of the UK was devastated.

[Alan Medic]

Comeuppance, is that what death is to you for Thatcher? Can you distinguish life from death? What gives you the right to comment on someone else's life when it's coming to an end? What do you know of life or death for that matter? Do you know the woman? Are you a judge?

I hope your demise is treated somewhat more kindly by those who say they love you. For one who has so much hate inside I suspect that love is not as real for you as you may wish when it comes to what people think of you.

[LadyDeliah]

I did not say I hate her. I said many people do.

Where you as supportive of the family of Osama Bin Laden when the papers glorified his death? Do you feel the same way for the deaths of all humans or is some human life more valuable in your mind than others?

[maxxi]

I hear she will be interred not cremated - 'cause the Lady's not for burning.

[Marmora Man]

This subject was discussed thoroughly about two years ago when a similarly I'll natured comment was made about Lady Thatcher during an earlier illness.

I do not intend to re run the same arguments more than once.

Signing off.

[Frankito]

(to Ladydeliah)

Two very separate scenarios, the correlation you are trying to create is both weak and vulgar... Lets go back to basics on the issue here:

Should we be openly grinning and joyous at the event of her death? What gives the right to take the moral high ground and slap ourselves on the back as we welcome the grim reaper into the arena.... Come on wolves, back off.

[Alan Medic]

You said that's just life. If you don't value life then you don't deserve to have it. You judge someone else's life......someone will judge yours. All life is equally valuable. Only if you know it though.