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Laeti-dazza Productions
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Off to a flying start!!!
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Laetitia, I hope our spies have not been captured by a murderous regime... well, a little bit at least...
Laetitia
Tribune
Tssss Sir, we know that you secretly hope that this story ends badly for me and my spy friends, after a rope for example ...
I would never hope for something like that!!! I am... I... Keep writing. I'll read!
Laetitia
Tribune
Tomorrow ... if I'm still aliveYes, please continue ...
Are these union hangwomen???
Laetitia
Tribune
Let's say that in life, I'm hung by my friend Aurelie and now her assistant Sandrine, Manon too.
If the outcome is death, one way or the other, I see no point in signing anything.
Always wondered about that. Why do people walk to their own executions?
Why don't they just go berserk and attack their guards.
They might simply get shot then, rather than hanged, guillotined, etc. I suspect it's an ingrained instinct not to hurt other people, even the people who are going to hurt you. Anyway, confess away, if you want to. 
Great pictorial story!
windar
Teller of Tales
I asked that question regarding one or another crucifixion story here. I suppose if you are being executed by hanging or lethal injection, you could imagine that they could hurt you if you fought too hard, so why not choose the less painful route. But since crucifixion is (supposedly) the ultimate in pain, a condemned would have had nothing to lose by making the guards kill them on the spot. Maybe someone (not me) should write a crucifixion story where that happens...If the outcome is death, one way or the other, I see no point in signing anything.
Great pictorial story!
Marcius
Tribune
As the tumbril containing the brothers Aunay appeared, a great clamour arose, becoming louder as the crowd distinguished the two young men. Neither Gautier nor Philippe was able to move. Without the ropes that bound them to the tumbril’s rail, they would have been unable to remain upright.
A priest had visited their prison to receive their mumbled confessions and the last words to be sent to their family. Exhausted, gasping, half-insensible, they were incapable of making any stand against their fate, they had but little realisation of what was happening to them, and wished only for a rapid end to their nightmare and annihilation.
--from The Iron King by Maurice Druon.Just in case: the sentence called for the brothers Aunay to 'be flayed alive, broken upon the wheel, drawn, decapitated and hung from the public gibbet'.
This must have been quite common.
Otherwise some must have desired to show that they counted for nothing all the torments their enemies could fling at them. Rabbi Akiba is said to have examined a theological point in such a way:
...Akiba passed on to martyrdom reciting the Shema. As one of his companions stated, commenting on Deut. 66, obedience and love of God could be interpreted as a willingness to die for Him. 'To love God with all thy soul was to love Him to the pressing out of thy soul', that is until death.
-- from Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church by William Frend.
And a few must have fought, some even 'successfully'.
windar
Teller of Tales
The spies in our story here are presumably dying, not for God, but for their country. And as George Patton said, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
We would expect nothing less from you, JollyIf I do it, it will turn out to be a sort of tragicomedy.
Marcius
Tribune
Now that was the brief of Akiba's protégé, known as Bar Kokhba -- who failed spectacularly.
Jolly, keep quiet and do your job... new ones are coming...If the outcome is death, one way or the other, I see no point in signing anything.
Great pictorial story!
