Pro-life is loving the living, in all shapes and forms.
Your Tatler will not claim to being a fan of punk rock, to put it mildly, but news received of punk rocker Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, has made me a fan of his. Here’s why.
Rock star John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, leader of the well-known punk band the Sex Pistols, has lost his wife of over 40 years, Nora Forster, to Alzheimer’s disease. But though many have turned to assisted suicide (or outright murder) to end the lives their spouses with dementia and Alzheimer’s, Lydon quietly cared for Forster with love and devotion.
In a 2020 interview, Lydon said he remained his wife’s caretaker, and that she still lived with him in Los Angeles.
“I won’t let anyone mess up with her head,” Lydon said. “For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life. It’s unfortunate that she forgets things; well, don’t we all? … I suppose her condition is one of like a permanent hangover for her. It gets worse and worse, bits of the brain store less and less memory, and then suddenly some bits completely vanish … It’s quite amazing as the alleged experts we have had to deal with at enormous expense have said that they have been very impressed that she never ever forgets me, we are constantly there with each other [in her mind] and that bit won’t go. Why pay for professionals to work on this when I think the message is a bit of love goes a long way.”
It would be interesting to conduct a poll to see what percentage of those who support euthanasia also support abortion. I suspect the numbers would be close to identical, for the two are similar. They both are about the disposal of the those whose lives, for whatever reasons, have become inconvenient to others. Johnny Rotten has shown to the world that while his late wife’s malady was certainly an inconvenience, it was also a blessing, to both husband and wife. In our throw-away society, he has proved himself a prince among men.
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