"Life is a sexually transmitted disease that no one survives." - Jason Carswell

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

R. D. Laing: "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks, I didn't know that.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't either. TIL. I knew "life is sexually transmitted" is certainly a common enough phrase.

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It is perhaps a fitting statement at Saidit, given Laing's incredible influence on the anti-psychiatry movement, and our concerns at Saidit about the abuses of Big Pharma.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Unsourced since 2009: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Ronald_David_Laing

It may be a misattributed quote.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Life+is+a+sexually+transmitted+disease+and+the+mortality+rate+is+one+hundred+percent

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Source for the quotation:

Burston D. 'The Wing of Madness: the Life and Work of R D Laing.' Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Also:

1656: Life is an Incurable Disease. —Abraham Cowley

1943: Some people think of life as a fatal disease. —Francis T. Cunningham

1968: Life is a hereditary disease. —Anonymous Graffito

1971: Life is a terminal disease. —Anonymous Graffito

1980: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. —Anonymous Graffito

1981: Life is just another sexually transmitted social disease. —Margaret Atwood

1982: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. — attributed to Posy Simmonds

1982: Life is a sexually transmitted disease. —Guy Bellamy

1984: Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. —Marilyn Duckworth

1985: Life is a sexually transmitted disease & there’s a 100% mortality rate. —R. D. Laing

1997: Paula Gunn Allen published "Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems, 1962-1995."

2004: Lis Harvey released the song "Life Is Fatal."

2009: Zeke Hoskin released the song "Life Is Lethal."

[–]ArcturianDeathTrap 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

What?! 1980? Naw, I said it first on the internet in the 90s. Everyone after is stealing my intellectual property and owe's me ten bucks, because every ten bucks is a drink at the bars now.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Source for your list? I see dates and stuff. Are those book titles? All we need is one for Laing and the Wikiquote page can be updated.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Burston's book

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Link?