We can thank the lord she has stopped the public wearing of just leggings, though.
http://www.dlisted.com/2012/11/20/fi...ing-dog-friend
That is exactly how I would feel. Poor crazy lonely weird Fiona.
good for her. maybe some people see it as extreme but i don't.
"I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments. I need to do my damnedest to be there for that. Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I’ve ever known. When she dies."
watching my dog pass on is hopefully the most traumatic thing i'll have to deal with this year. it was worse than having my heart broken into a million pieces because well, it too broke my heart in a million pieces but i would have felt so much worse if i hadn't been there with the big black baby when she died. i'm going to start crying if i keep talking about this... fuck. too late.
anyway, good for you, fiona. it might end up costing you a gajillion dollars but being there for/with your friend in her last days will be worth it.
I see where you're coming from, Ron, and I guess my response is that she's in a financial position that allows her the leeway to do this so that's awesome for her. I imagine if you're a fan of hers, you're probably rooting for her and not too pissed off.
As much as I'd like to think I would stop everything for a pet, the reality is I can't afford to take days or weeks off to watch my pet die and I would probably have the animal put down. I'm a huge animal lover, but even I see this as a bit extreme. But then again, I see everything a Kardashian or Bieber or Beyonce does as excessive and ridiculous but they can afford it, so who am I to argue.
I'm a fan of hers, and good for her for being able to afford it, but I'm thinking of the hundreds of people she employs with a tour that have to suffer financially cause of a fucking sick dog.
Honestly, I would keep it to myself if I were her; at least then people wouldn't judge. Not everyone wants to make it a holiday cause a dog is sick.
Damn it, I said I wouldn't bite.
But I'm glad to see you find it extreme, thanks. I feel like I'm on crazy pills when shit like this comes up around here.
Did you not read it? I totally don't think it's extreme. If she's not close with any of her family, single, etc., yeah I would hate myself if something happened to my cat when i wasn't there. My cat has been the most comforting, constant element of my life.
maybe i should have said i don't think it's that extreme. it is a little extreme, yes, but i get it. and if i could have afforded to take the day off, let alone some weeks off to be with my dog, i would have. but i didn't, so i visited her every chance i could in her last weeks. but she was 25 miles away, at my parents house and i have a desk job. -shrug-
also, she didn't cancel the tour. she postponed it. if she said fuck it, i'm not doing this anymore at all, i might lean a little more towards extreme.
Yea, I really hope so. I'd be up in some shenanigans that would look like an 80s movie if I were part of her crew and this shit was costing me money. Breaking in and switching dogs or something that would involve hi-jinks. Oh yea, that's happening.
Nah, didn't read. Not really my cup of tea.
And if anyone could understand that position, I could. I just don't.
I'm not looking for anyone to convince me, I just think people should reconsider before putting her up for sainthood. I mean remember Lady Gaga puking? Bitch was sick, but the show must go on. Put the dog down and bring the ashes to South America. :shrugs:
You're sad.
That's a horrible attitude. I'm sorry that you don't know what it's like to experience love and comfort from another living creature. Maybe if you read that letter, you would understand better. Lady Gaga is a self involved piece of shit. This is a creature that Fiona has loved and raised since it was a baby. Your attitude is the xtreme one.
"She has Addison’s Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death. Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She’s my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she’s the one who taught me what love is.
I can’t come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference. She doesn’t even want to go for walks anymore. I know that she’s not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people. But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go. I just can’t leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out."
If you don't understand that sentiment, something inside you is broken and dead.
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