Maybe she just made a mistake. As she said. What would be the point of any alternative?

Yes, but it would be ridiculous for her to be pissing on Nancy Reagan’s grave this soon. Let the rest of us do that.

It sounds pretty bad to me.

God, I hope so, because Sprite, to me, tastes awful!

I generally agree with your assessment, but I also think the hopes and dreams of some people who work for and around celebrities may at times be different from the motivations of people who work for more typical families.

When my kids were young, our regular babysitter/nanny was a knockout and I loved her. We went to her wedding (not to my husband)!

I think he was looking for a way to make a difference in the world. He was a failure in school and work, and this seemed like something he could be good at.

I agree, it’s pretty disgusting. And I suspect it’s even worse than we know.

I can’t imagine it happened that way, anyway. He molested those girls several times before he went to mom and dad and confessed out of the blue? That just doesn’t ring true. And then he did it again, and confessed later. And then he did it again, this time with a 5 year old, and confessed later. I don’t buy that he…

As chilling as the incident report is, the reality has to be worse.

Well, on the other side of it, even if people talk about how foolish those students are, at least they’re talking about the issue.

I think it is the case with all systems of rules. Every time someone finds a way around the existing rules, more rules are put in place to prevent that. You get a system that grows and grows until it is too complex and incoherent to provide any decent guidance for behavior. And then you have to live in a way where…

You know what, though? I think half the time when there is a story out there about the girl sleeping with her advisor, it’s not true at all. People just can’t believe a professor would find an attractive female student worth mentoring unless it’s in exchange for sex.

I agree. College students ought to learn a bit about the history of civil disobedience and activism in this country. For example, Rosa Parks didn’t just decide one day she’d had enough of sitting in back of the bus. Her actions were part of an ongoing intellectual effort to put theory into action. THINK, people.

...and think of the nightmare he lives all the time. He’s struggled with alcoholism and depression and the only thing he has to look forward to in sobriety and mental health is life with HER.

Everybody poops.

I think there might be a lot of healthy, mundane reasons for having each others' passwords, but "so we can check up on each other" is not one of them.

Right. She must feel like it hasn't gotten bad enough yet, that she's still got some good days or weeks left.

The little I understand about it is that she's wanting to take her life on the day when she still is of sound mind but doesn't think she has any good days left. I guess that time hasn't come yet.

She's said how much less scary the process has been because she had this choice.