Lara Croft’s Buttocks

From the start of the speech to Alzheimer’s Research Trust Network.

Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Terry Pratchett, author of a series of inexplicably successful fantasy books and I have had Alzheimer’s now for the past two years plus, in which time I managed to write a couple of bestsellers. I have a rare variant. I don’t understand very much about it, but apparently if you are going to have Alzheimer’s it’s a good one to have. So, a stroke of luck there then…

and from the end

I'd like a chance to die like my father did—of Cancer, at 86. (Remember, I'm speaking as a man with Alzheimer's, which strips away your living self a bit at a time). Before he went to spend his last two weeks in a hospice he was bustling around the house, fixing things. He talked to us right up to the last few days, knowing who we were and who he was. Right now, I envy him. And there are thousands like me, except that they don’t get heard.

So let’s shout something loud enough to hear. We need you and you need money. I’m giving you a million dollars. Spend it wisely.

If you want to know what this post title has to do with anything, read the full text of the speech.

Thanks to pwt_fan and the Discworld LJ community for finding this.

Comments

[Jezebel Ook]

Good speech, very Terry. But I'm concerned that some of the press seem to be taking his comments out of context. My neighbour has just completed chemotherapy (this is the second time she's had breast cancer), and she was very upset at what she perceived as TP's blase aproach to the suffering of cancer patients. I tried explaining that I don't believe that's what he mean AT ALL. But, that's how she saw it.

[pwt_fan]

You're welcome! I think it's great that your trying to help raise awareness (& hopefully shed-loads of money) for such a worthwhile cause.

:o)

[pwt_fan]

You're welcome! I think it's great that your trying to help raise awareness (& hopefully shed-loads of money) for such a worthwhile cause.

:o)