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"Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the pomp and privilege of leading the global Catholic Church, has decided that a simple wooden casket will suffice when the time comes for his funeral." https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-avoiding-pomp-asks-be-buried-simple-wooden-casket-2024-11-20/

I think you have to be careful with how you frame this sort of thing. I know it's fashionable to hate on the NHS and sympathize with the elderly patients, but there's a balance, a lot of is down to the patient losing interest in food and no longer wanting to put the effort into eating, despite what the relatives might want to think. (If they were _really_ that desperate to eat I'm sure they'd be making a hell of a fuss about it. Dying involves just 'giving up' on a lot of basic stuff which is usually hard to accept) To quote House MD - "death is never dignified, it's always ugly"

Often it's not that the food is bad - a part of end-of-life is the digestive system packing in so eating becomes painful, and appetite evaporates. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/end-of-life-care/your-wellbeing/changes-in-the-last-hours-and-days/

Happy Birthday to Ken Weeks, oldest Aussie lad right now, and 3rd oldest in the world. 111 today. https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarian/ken-weeks/

Happy Birthday John Tinniswood, 112 today, oldest in the UK (and the world!). No doubt he'll be out on a bender with the lads tonight to celebrate.

Happy Birthday Ethel Caterham, 115 today, oldest in UK.

I assume they mean this bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4hZRSwGnoM&t=790s Nice Olympics tie-in.

Happy birthday Elizabeth Francis, 115 today, oldest in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Francis

Updated now. https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarian/shi-ping/

Happy Birthday Inah Canabarro Lucas, 116 today.

Happy birthday to the 3rd oldest living man, Alfonso Maria Rogas Perdomo, 111 years, -1 days today. https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarian/alfonso-maria-rojas-perdomo/

Would tie up nicely with that 'March 28 2026' tweet that was doing the rounds.

Happy Birthday Josino Levino Ferreira, 111 today and now the third oldest living man. https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/josino-levino-ferreira/

Maria Branyas was born in the USA so technically American. Maybe she will move back to spend her retirement years in Florida or something.

André Ludwig apparently died on 7th Jan, only 2 living in the top-100 men now, at least according to Wikipedia.

I remember the interview he did with Julian Assagne and thinking 'that chap is certainly making trouble for himself', lol.

This is straight out of a 'Derek and Clive' skit. https://derekandclive.uk/come-again/back-of-the-cab/ Derek: Yeah, well I had the same experience. I, er, opened the cab door for somebody who hailed me on the corner… Clive: Who was that? “Hailed” you? Derek: Richard Wagner. Clive: Richard Wagner? Derek: Yeah. Clive: But he’s been dead two hundred years.

It's roughly 100 billion, as in "A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore".

30, taking an outlier.

Dead. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56054904