Stigmata

I’d seen Stigmata at the cinema, and remembered it mainly for the sound-effects, to be honest. That might sound weird, until you realise that the particular sound effect related to crucifixion, the sound of the impact of hammers on the nails/spikes used. And it was shudder-inducing.

Watching it on TV tonight reminded me that it’s a bloody good film too – and the sound effects are still vomit-inducing. Not quite horror, not quite thriller – it straddles a lot of fences, and I think I might even have to get it on DVD…

Choices

Something Green Fairy was saying this week (look at her 17th June posting – permalinks appear to be keffed) reminded me of stuff I’ve been thinking about for a while – namely Wills, Living Wills, and all of that associated garbage. Not the most cheerful of subjects, particularly for a Saturday night, but there we go. At least I’m not cliched.

There’s a lot of stuff around it all too – mainly to do with relying on other people, wondering whether they’d go through with what I want, whether they could handle executing a living will, all kinds of stuff. Is it fair to expect someone else to be able to say “He doesn’t want to live in this state” and to allow death to happen? Is it fair to want them to fulfil the terms of the will, even if they personally disagree with the terms?