Yes, I still want to live

We got this link from (zap)Patriotic. There is a new book out on Woody Guthrie. We here at littleboxes read the Guthrie biography written by Joe Klein and it was, in a word, "awesome." Here is a little bit of the CNN article that duus over at (zap)Patriotic linked to:

Soon, the man who had penned well more than a thousand songs and innumerable writings and drawings would begin a dark, 13-year battle with Huntington's Chorea. The illness Guthrie inherited from his mother and passed on to at least two of his children -- both daughters from his first marriage -- would not only rob him of his ability to write and sing, but even to walk and talk.

In his final days, he would resort to blinking his eyes to communicate with people, and one of his final statements before he died in 1967 at age 55 would be "Yes," when asked whether, in spite of all he'd been through, he still wanted to live.