Talk:The Ship Who Sang

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Links created to strongly suggest those be written. Also, I'm fairly sure there's some other books in the same universe that are missing. Jon 16:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Merger proposal[edit]

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Brainship has little original content and a small number of incoming links. The list of stories is also in this article.--Oneiros 18:00, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Another thought; change the title of the article to Brains (Ship series) (or something similar) and make the article into a description of the brains as a whole, not just those who serve as brainships, and their roles in the society of the Ship books. McCaffrey and her various co-writers put plenty of explanatory and background material into the books that could be used here. In fact, I might just volunteer for the task--but I'll have to ask my mom to re-loan me her copies of the books and read the series again, which will take a while, especially since I'm currently entrenched in re-reading the Crystal Singer books. -- Pennyforth 07:53, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stale

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Euthanasia?[edit]

I read this book and I recall no concept of 'Euthanasia'. Lots42 (talk) 16:59, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I would have agreed with you, but the article cited quotes the euthanasia wording (from the audio book?) Please verify it against the novel in case there is a discrepancy? Tkech (talk) 07:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See the first two paragraph of the book (25th paper printing, Dec 1993, page 1).

She was born a thing and as such would be condemned if she failed to pass ... The electro-encephalogram was entirely favorable ... There was the final, harsh decision: to give their child euthanasia or permit it to become an encapsulated "brain" ...

--P64 (talk) 15:47, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Verified: The two paragraphs quoted in the critical essay are the first two paragraphs of the book. --P64 (talk) 21:59, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

--PouncePounce (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2019 (UTC)If one reads all the books (in that universe) it becomes clear that the societie is very capitalistic with little wellfare (similar to US)and that the "brain process" is for newborn who are not able to survive otherwise, given today where an newborn who is destiened to die soon, or only under very painfull conditions survives a very short time with massive medical help an "gentle death" is full legal (No one dares to call it euthanasie) So what is written in the books is not that out there, aside the escape into the "shell" and honestly calling it euthanasie (procedures in most western countries today are keeping the newborn comfortable and ease pain, up to lethal doses if needed) If a shell was avaiable today I doubt the outcome would be otherwise exept if the parents are insanly rich and can pay the process, the person would have to work of the medical bills. So i do not see how it is noteworthy. PouncePounce (talk) 17:40, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]