But I still have a loving partner and, um, sometimes you say: 'Better a horrifying end.
This well known German proverb "Better a horrifying end, than horror without an end", which the patient starts and the interviewer completes as suggested, embraces the meaning of this WTD as a wish to shorten the dying process in order not to have to wait for death to arrive.
Nineteen years as an electrician for the Phillips Petroleum Company in suburban Houston came to a horrifying end for Alan Goss in March 2000, when a chemical tank exploded, burning him over half his body, killing another employee and injuring 73 others.
The Brooklyn mother, Lucia Ferreira, now 39, said in an interview that at the hospital she had felt she did not matter as her pregnancy spiraled toward its horrifying end.
If the guillotine fantasy still entices, it might cool if you consider that the satisfaction of the blade is brief, said Jeremy Mercer, author of "When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977".
But Ballard had spent a whole week in that cell in the prison's mental observation unit, with guards passing by and looking inside but never entering to check on him, according to an investigation by the Associated Press, which obtained documents detailing the 39-year-old inmate's horrifying end.
The old weaknesses remain (the risible dubbing and body-doubling of Britt Ekland, Hardy's often clunky direction) but the strengths are overpowering; Edward Woodward's towering performance, Anthony Shaffer's brilliantly nasty script, Paul Giovanni's weirdie folk music, and that matchlessly horrifying ending.
The wails that followed could be heard from outside, sounding the end of a horrifying shooting that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in the school.
As in "The Vagina Monologues," the women offer speeches that praise their sexuality, but in "The Veiled Monologues" they usually end with a horrifying thud: the supposed virgin has been raped by a relative; the woman who has happily nicknamed her vagina Zebra is sad because her husband is a polygamist.
This sometimes came at an unimaginable price, and Davies's book ends with a horrifying and sobering postscript.
"Abyss," which chronicles a perfunctory and not very satisfying affair between two real estate agents who meet at an awards dinner, ends with a horrifying accident at the Grand Canyon that will send shock waves through the survivor's family.
