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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

death wish

The writing's on the wall.

'Last meals' is curated by Jonathan Kambouris, for a tunnel underpass in Singapore. Death row prisoners from the US lining the tunnel in an exhibit titled 'Art & the Law'. Macabre and so mortal..mint chocolate chip ice cream, one pitted olive, one tortilla chip, garden salad, a banana, steak, eggs, hash brown, Eucharist sacrament, nothing...

The Straits Times used to run a column featuring a chef and then ask what their last meal would be. Morbidly fascinating stuff. D for death wish.

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11 comments:

  1. Death penalty...I have mixed feelings about this.
    Great take on the theme!!

    D is for detail...

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  2. As you say, morbidly fascinating. Good choice for the letter D.

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  3. That is morbid! But it is fascinating to hear what people would eat as their last meal.
    Great D!

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  4. I thin this is one of the weirdest and coolest D posts! Like Mar, I have mixed feelings about death penalty, but I ended up getting morbidly attracted to the wishes people from the death corridr have... Very much a Stephen King kind of thing!

    Kisses from Nydia.

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  5. Morbid, to be sure--more so: that which those folks on death row did to be on death row.

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  6. There are websites, such as http://www.deadmaneating.com/dmearch.html with last meals and others http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders.htm e.g., with final words. Interesting that a small percentage of the latter still maintain their innocence, which has always made me wonder about the death penalty altogether.

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  7. A provocative D post, for sure. It does stir mixed emotions. I wonder if the victims had a choice for their last meal.

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  8. Wishing you a Happy and Enjoyable Chinese New Year!

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  9. Made me think!
    Thanks so much for participating! Denise (ABC Team)

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Great to see you ~Irene