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Versus the US method of keeping someone on life support then killing them with morphine and labeling it as pain management.

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My father was diagnosed with throat cancer 2 years ago. He was 84 at the time, has dementia but not bad, diabetic, has had prostate cancer treatment 3 times in the last 26 years, is more or less bed ridden and incontinent. His doctors decided surgery was not an option as he was unlikely to survive being put to sleep for surgery. The options were to let the cancer run its course or radiation. He chose radiation....based in part on his doctors telling him that the treatment was almost without side effects and within a couple of weeks of the start or treatment he would get substantial relief from the pain and when the treatment was complete there was a high likelihood of his recovering fully and with no long term impact. He has NEVER gotten any relief from the pain, according to him, and was in horrendous pain during the treatment. He spent 6 months in a surgical rehab facility during and after completion of treatment and, the truly horrendous part, he has been on a feeding tube for the last 22 months...has not eaten and drank anything orally in nearly 2 years. No one told any of us this might happen...in fact, his entire medical team, told lead all of us to think the treatment was similar to that which he had undergone for prostate cancer. They never told us that he might wind up on a feeding tube. None of that was mentioned until he nearly died from dehydration about halfway through the treatment because he was unable to swallow. He has been through a hellish experience and decided about a year ago he was done and is now in in home hospice. It is unlikely, had any of his doctors told him he could wind up on a feeding tube for the rest of his life, that he'd have had the treatment. He would probably be dead now and his death would not have been an easy one BUT his life is as hard now, his pain is, according to him, at least as bad as it was before treatment and he is almost done. His doctors should not have ever even offered treatment as an option...he was not physical up to surgery and, as it turns out, according to the same doctors who said he wasn't, the radiation treatment for that sort of cancer is more demanding physically than surgery. Why they offered treatment is beyond me....I want to believe that it is due to their dedication to the healing arts....they fact that we can contact any one of about 8 doctors involved, today, 2 years after the fact, and they inevitably ask us how we know he had throat cancer, after they were all involved in treating it for the last 2 years, tells me that there are factors beyond patient care and most likely based on financial decisions which lead this group of doctors to treat a patient who was not up to it physically.

The truly galling part is we had never heard of in house hospice. They suggested it....after they destroyed the man's ability to eat or drink or take medication orally they say "well, in home hospice care is a good option". They went from "he isn't physically able to have surgery and the radiation treatment is basically no problem" to "radiation treatment is more demanding physically than surgery" and finally to "hospice is a good option"....in 2 years. They'd been more humane to have thumbcocked a .38 and put it to his temple and pull the trigger 2 years ago...but they wouldn't have been able to bill his insurance for that and that, at the end of the day, is the only thing that matters.

Buying ticket on Spirit or Frontier or any low cost carrier and bitching about the service is worse than complaining at McDonalds about your order being wrong....if you're going to trade with such places you gotta accept the fact that they ain't in the same industry as Delta for instance...

For me at least the airline ain't the issue with air travel...as long as I get from point A to B in one piece alive and in a reasonable amount of time they have more or less fulfilled my expectations. I don't care what airline you fly if it ain't private the airport experience is going to be double barreled shitty. Paying $500 for a ticket on United or $150 for the same destination on Spirit still means dealing with a fricking airport. If United blew me on their flight it wouldn't be worth $350 after dealing with the airport....

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For a crown? What is 60 bucks? A cleaning maybe????

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$60 is for sitting in the waiting room. Unless its a high end place and then its for touching the door knob.....everything else costs extra....

Might have missed the golden era of catching exotic fish in S Florida....I am pretty certain Miami had its coldest recorded temp in about 100 years in late January / early February. It was, if memory serves, an extended 2-3 day period of extremely cold weather in south Florida. A less severe cold front killed off a pile of exotics in 2010.

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Could you build a shitty raft out of some pool chairs and life jackets tied together?

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If the movie with Leo and Kate is remotely close to true you could have lashed the dead bodies together and floated 3 boat loads of folks who weren't dead....at one time there is a scene with about 40K in it and that's after about half that many had jumped in the water. There had to be 25,000 dead bodies floating around with life jackets big enough to float a VW Bug in the water within 15 minutes of the boat hitting the ice. You coulda lashed them together, fetched up the piano and tossed it up on them and 10,000 folks could have had a dance party until help arrived....

From a recently arrived cat fancier I would have it put down. It is 17 years old, it is not going to get better its going to get worse. It is confused and frightened and its going to continue to be both....its the humane thing to do.

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It’s always the fat, gross people that are into this stuff.

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Our neighbors in Germany were swingers....they were very open about it. She was very attractive and he was pretty normal looking for folks in their early 50s. She greeted me most mornings, when weather permitted, butt naked on their porch when I would drink coffee on ours. They made it abundantly clear that we had an open invitation to partake if we were so inclined. We did not but it was nice of them to offer. We did socialize with the pretty often...they were very nice folks, empty nesters, educated, well read and traveled as upper middle class Europeans tend to be. He and I went to the redlight district in Nuremberg a couple of times while we were living in Germany. I would drink beer and watch folks while he did what people do in the redlight district. They were perfectly normal folk other than they enjoyed having sex with other people and doing so in a group setting.

I went to a "house party" with him one night....a house party in Germany is an orgy. It was by invitation. When he knocked on the door a GORGEOUS woman, in her late 40s, opened it up, butt naked, and warmly invited us in. Folks naked eerywhere. and for the most part not hawgzillas....lot of beer bellies and some padding for certain, everyone there was 30 or older. Mostly a party like any other except almost everyone was butt naked. There was some fricking going on but most of it was not going on in the front room. About 25% of the people there were fully clothed, mostly Germans but a good number of brits and Americans. I stayed about an hour, drank a few beers and took the train home. While it was not something I would have taken part in those people seemed perfectly normal, they were no more unattractive than any gathering of similarly aged people, and other than them being naked and fricking one another it was more or less like any other cocktail party. I am certain they got serious about the fricking aspect later in the evening....I was there from about 7 - 8 PM and they were just getting warmed up, but it seemed pretty harmless to me.

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It’s kind of like a nude beach, the people that will go to this thing aren’t the kind of people you’d want to do anything with.

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This is an observable fact. The amount of fabric used in general on beaches, nude or not, is inversely proportional to the girth of the individual in question....this extends exponentially to beaches where clothing is optional. This is so anywhere on the planet and also applies to swimming pools. The one exception in my experience was the resort my wife and I spent our honeymoon at....they had a nude island and once a week they had "prude" day where those "not in the lifestyle" could visit the island and, if the mood struck, get butt naked. This resort was fairly expensive and was heavily marketed as a honeymoon destination so the clientele tended to be young and at least employed or possessing an income from somewhere. We took part in Prude Day while there and, as it turned out, the mood struck and we did indeed get butt naked. The majority of the people there that day were not disgusting. Mostly American so certainly some extra padding here and there but all in all not what one would see in Greece, for example. No where near as bad as beaches in South Carolina and the Pan Handle of Florida where clothing is required....

Didn't shack up with her but my junior and senior year in high school I was more or less a drug mule for a dealer on the west side of Atlanta - he would front me pot and I would sale it to folks in Cobb and Douglas counties who were skeered to cross the Chattahoochee river and buy directly from the wholesaler. It was pretty lucrative for a kid.

One of my main sources of income was a trailer park just west of Dobbins AFB. This was a pretty dodgy area in the early 1980s. The lady I sold to was about 25 years old (I was 16 and 17) and lived with her father who was a Dilaudid junkie and spent his days shooting up, drinking smirnoffs and picking a guitar. Just the sort of person a 17 year wannabe gangsta would find fascinating. Anyway this woman was trailer park hot...about 5'2, maybe 120, 130,,,just chunky enough to be hot in that renaissance art way. Blonde, nearly about perfect figure, and eyes remarkably similar to those of that Afghan girl from the cover of Time...the epitome of "the eyes of age" - every time I saw them I thought of Mr. Bojangles. I am certain she was, in addition to a drug dealer, also a "working girl", but not a very good one because she could have easily gotten the pound or so of rag weed I would bring her every week in exchange for the carnal knowledge she provided me. For a horny 17 year old it was the ideal situation - not healthy in any way. certainly not morally, but man we (me anyway) had a BIG time.

She wound up going to jail for writing prescriptions...it was inevitable. I ran into her about a year before I met my wife. She was working at a Waffle House on I20. Still trailer park hot although the jail diet and a kid had added about 30 pounds. Still had those eyes and knew more about sex than the editors at Penthouse Forum. I like to think she is now a good Christian woman and a pillar of the community somewhere around Paulding County or maybe Villa Rica....someone's granny with secrets they'd never imagine.

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Garcia allegedly served as a property custodian at KCNSC's New Mexico facility, giving him a top security clearance and broad access to the entire site's nuclear secrets.

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No it wouldn't LOL....not at Los Alamos. Not for a property custodian....a glorified tool room clerk. He may have held a secret or L clearance but he did not have "broad access to the entire site's nuclear secrets" because, and this is for a reason, no one does. No one has "broad" access to the "entire site's nuclear secrets"....it don't work like that LOL. Dude kept up with government issued equipment like computers and phones and shovels and coffee makers....

Considering she found herself in a well at exactly the same time Ronald Reagan and company were just about to have to answer questions about a Marine LT making major foreign policy decisions without anyone knowing about it its no wonder she has turned to violence....the bible and reaping and sowing and what not but toss a child down a well to cover up a crime and the child is liable to have some issues down the road