You know what I find interesting? How the circumstances of Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr)’s are eluded. She murdered her husband while he slept and then killed herself. And yet there’s a SFF award named after her. I am deeply conflicted about this.
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Replying to @eilatan
In a country with a euthanasia policy for terminally ill elderly people, it might not have happened. Her husband was ill and 84 years old. She left notes indicating they had a death pact. She didn't just up and do it randomly.
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Could he consent to the pact? This happened around the time Jack Kevorkian was killing people with extremely gray levels of consent.
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She’d been planning suicide for a long time. She said there’d be no one to take care of her husband. I read about the murder-suicide at the time. I read it as a mutual pact. We should keep the award and acknowledge her tragic end. She was important to the field.
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She acknowledged that her husband didn’t want to die. So fuck off with “her tragic end”. She murdered her husband while he was sleeping. He didn’t make the choice then and there.
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