Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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looney said:
Hey looney.
My friend Susan died of cancer a week ago today. It started in her spleen, worked it's way up to her lungs and ended up in her brain. Took two years of progressively bad news, til it gained serious momentum in the last month and became unbearable for Susan herself and anybody who ever cared about her. She lived in California and for the last week of her life she took to calling me up at all hours, with the aid of her family members dialling the numbers and holding the mouthpiece for her. She was on heavy sedation, morphine mainly, and she alternated between spouting completely gibberish (completely in French for one particularly memorable period), having conversations of absolute clarity, and going into terrifying panic attacks. She knew she was going to die and she desperately didn't want to. She was always smart and chic and took infuriating-if-you-were-trying-to-go-out-of-an-evening pride in her appearance. She lost all her hair earlydoors, and all control over her bodily functions in the final stages. She was fortysomething. She made her daughter make her a shroud FFS. She wanted it to become a family heirloom til somebody gently pointed out she also wanted to be cremated.
Sorry for laying this on you, on one level, cos you never knew my friend Susan existed, and if you had presumably you wouldn't be rotten enough to have a dig in her final days. But Mo Mowlam is somebody's mum and somebody's partner and somebody's daughter too. And a lot of people's friend. Just because she's in the papers, and was once a public figure, doesn't make it any less sad. If your mum or your nan or anybody you ever knew had to go through the sickening stages of terminal cancer, you couldn't ever have done that post. Least I hope you couldn't.
Maybe stick to shit politics in future mate
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R.I.P i can't imagine anyone to go thorugh that know that you're going to die and nothing can be done about it. 
Now Mo Mowlam whatever you think of her (and i dont know how you could even think badly of her) she deserves at least the respect of what she is going through. Put youself in her position, or imagine your mum or someone close in her position. Its not nice is it. 
