Roger Ebert and his mortality

[Thor]

I've really had a love/hate for this guy over the last few decades, but this was a really solid blog on his imminent demise.

Well worth reading.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009...ood_night.html

I don't expect to die anytime soon. But it could happen this moment, while I am writing. I was talking the other day with Jim Toback, a friend of 35 years, and the conversation turned to our deaths, as it always does. "Ask someone how they feel about death," he said, "and they'll tell you everyone's gonna die. Ask them, In the next 30 seconds? No, no, no, that's not gonna happen. How about this afternoon? No. What you're really asking them to admit is, Oh my God, I don't really exist and I might be gone at any given second."

[burnin_vernon]

I think he comes across as a little pompous but I like reading his reviews. I sometimes would read them after seeing the movie myself and would often find his insight bang-on.

[troutman]

I think he is an excellent writer. Didn't he win the Pulitzer Prize? His review of No Intelligence Allowed is awesome. Nothing is funnier than his reviews of terrible movies.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...ATION/40909001

Roger Ebert has been the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, and his reviews are now syndicated in more than 200 newspapers in the U.S., Canada, England, Japan and Greece.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008...eins_mind.html

I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.

[photon]

Dying sucks because all kinds of neat stuff is going to happen that I don't get to know about

[Weiser Wonder]

Originally Posted by photon

Dying sucks because all kinds of neat stuff is going to happen that I don't get to know about

Unless the Christians are right then dying sucks because you're going to hell.

[photon]

I still won't get to find out the neat stuff.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by photon

Dying sucks because all kinds of neat stuff is going to happen that I don't get to know about

Yeah that's always been my hang-up about it too...I won't be around to see all the great sports games that happen after I'm gone, or the watch the great movies, or witness the great developments in science. And so on.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Yeah that's always been my hang-up about it too...I won't be around to see all the great sports games that happen after I'm gone, or the watch the great movies, or witness the great developments in science. And so on.

Hell yeah, immortality would rule, no matter what people say.

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by Thor

Hell yeah, immortality would rule, no matter what people say.

Strange you would say that because I've no fear of death but my biggest fear is being incinerated.

Throw me back to the earth is all I'd ask, legally or illegally. Rats, stray dogs, pigeons, Great white sharks, Lions ...

Anything but incineration.

[Thor]

Really dude? I'd prefer cremation as its less pressure on the world and makes more sense, spending all those resources/money to bury a lifeless body is silly to me.

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by Thor

Hell yeah, immortality would rule, no matter what people say.

I dunno about that...yes it'd be awesome to live forever, but what would happen if the earth got destroyed? What if humans were wiped out? Then you'd just be floating in space for eternity? Randomly land on a planet and chill there?

The way I think immortality would be awesome is if you could control when you die. So just jam until you get tired of the whole living thing, and then peace.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by Berger_4_

The way I think immortality would be awesome is if you could control when you die. So just jam until you get tired of the whole living thing, and then peace.

Selfish coward.

[Buzzard]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Yeah that's always been my hang-up about it too...I won't be around to see all the great sports games that happen after I'm gone, or the watch the great movies, or witness the great developments in science. And so on.

On the bright side, we won't be around to see all the nastiness also ! Global warming, ice ages, maybe the odd nuclear war. Can't forget the asteroid that's gonna get us some day either.

[Berger_4_]

Selfish coward.

Perhaps...but you can't honestly say you'd like to see the end of the world, and survive it.