Yeah, they’re working. That’s why I can calmly suggest you direct your ire to the sick fuck who was originally so flippant about the death rattle — here on a board with real people who have had real loved ones die right in front of them. If it bothers you to hear what it really is, then it should bother you a thousand times more to hear it tossed out as a joke. Of course, you will see it differently, and my viewpoint cannot possibly have any validity! 
God I love Clonazepam! 
Well, hey, if calmly describing your Mother’s death so you can score a message board zinger means the drugs are working then I guess I’ll just shutup and let you get on with business.
Never change, liberalalatarian, please, never change.
Your viewpoint is fucked up beyond all recognition, rooted as it is in a complete absence of a sense of humor AND a complete inability to recognize when something is inappropriate. Here’s an FYI: If I start a thread about how my car “died” and incorporate a flippant comment about its death rattle, that will NOT be an invitation for you to further desecrate your poor mother’s memory by again relating what she sounded like as she passed away. And don’t bother trying to pass off the “sick fuck” title to lobstermobster; after that post, the crown is clearly yours.
You guys know she was just making a silly movie quote right?
Oh my god you are such a fucking drama queen! lobstermobster is a sick fuck, but in this case, just making an off-color joke in the Pit. This thread is not about you or your mother. Why don’t you Pit LM for her insensitive comment if it bothers you so much? Or maybe just STFU?
Brad Pitt, Ed Norton… Bueller?
Holy SHIT. First of all, I thought the death rattle was just this literary term not the actual rattle of Liberal’s dying mother. Second of all, is everything off limits now? If I say I hate asparagus is someone going to fly off the handle because I’m being so flippant about their dead dog’s (not comparing a dog to a mother)favorite vegetable? Third, what the fucckkkk?
I’m waiting for Lib to tell us what movie his quote is from.
Don’t worry about it. We’ve got your back on this one.
Liberal, I never join in the pile-ons that happen to you around here, but you’re totally overreacting with this. LM obviously just making a sort of Carlinesque quip about a cliched phrase (apparently without even realizing it had any literal connotations) and you personalize that as an attack on your mother? Lighten up, dude. Should we avoid saying anything figurative about having heart attacks or strokes because someone might have a relative who died of a heart attack or a stroke?
You can listen to sounds of the death rattle on pulmonary medical websites. God the internet is truly amazing.
One that’s running only in his head, 24 hours a day, baby.
Ok, now THAT is fucking dark.
I agree. Let’s get back to pitting Otto, that sounds like more fun. 
He tried. They gave him a chip and he lost it betting on an AJ offsuit.
So, Liberal, what do you suppose Andrew Jackson’s final breath was like? I bet he was singing joyfully about a life well led.
aww that’s heartwarming. I hope mine is like that.
I think you mean napalm.
ETA: Sorry O-man I hadn’t seen your post when I jumped to post…
Nobody knows. One day he started coughin’ then about a week later when the coughin’ stopped, Ol’ Hickory was dead.
Fun fact: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is said to have gasped “Let us cross over the river and rest under the trees. Oy.” TMYK
… and then you came back, against your own prediction.
I’ll leave it at that, since the last time this topic was brought up, it ended up in all kinds of warnings and pittings.
Or were you talking you talking about someone else’s?
Back to attention whoring everyone.
Whoa. . . this thread is surreal!!
On topic. . . let’s see. I didn’t know anything about Otto before this thread and the linked one, but if I ever meet him in person, I’ll know to hide my 20 bucks. So there’s that. Ignorance fought. Continue on.
Some people are lamenting the death of the Pit, but I say it’s as strong as ever. Hell, in the average pit thread nowadays you can find pileons of 2-4 different Dopers! It’s like watching a ping pong game: Now Otto is getting served, now lobstermobster, now Liberal…who’s next?