http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/03/content_6366528.htm
Contemplating the memento mori on my desk, it strikes me that the Chinese government is making a mistake.
Thinking of death from time to time as I do, if only to prepare myself better for this inevitability, it strikes me that there is a certain dignity to being shot rather than being merely put down, if anyone reading this remembers Dead Man Walking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaEGK1bbxCQ
http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/377.cfm
I will refrain from posting links to either a beheading or a hanging, but I think giving the condemned man the option of choosing adds interest and drama to the proceedings.
Readers are invited to say which they prefer and why.
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
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