Death Links

[Sir Creep 7,070]

"The Australian state of Victoria recently legalised assisted suicide. This law, when enacted, will enable a resident who has lived in Victoria for at least a year, and who has a terminal, incurable illness with a life expectancy of less than six months, to obtain a lethal drug to commit suicide.  Victoria has now joined the ranks of the Netherlands, Canada, Belgium, Colombia and Luxembourg which have legalised euthanasia. Several states in the United States, including California, Washington, Vermont and Oregon, have passed laws allowing assisted suicide."

Rest of article discusses the new law that was passed.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

An American YouTube star has prompted a barrage of criticism after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.

The video showed Logan Paul and friends at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides.

Going in to film the "haunted" forest, they come across a man's body and are shocked, but also make jokes.

Logan apologized, but some responses to his 'pathetic' apology have already made it to press.
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[gcreptile 10,970]

"How death got cool":

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/12/how-death-got-cool-swedish-death-cleaning

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

50 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

"How death got cool":

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/12/how-death-got-cool-swedish-death-cleaning

 

The author of that book, Margareta Magnusson, was on Radio 4 earlier this week.  I'm not convinced she was being entirely serious and wondered if she was some sort of Scandinavian, Brass Eye style prankster, unleashed on the British public and more likely to fool them, as she's a sincere old lady.

[charon 4,943]

Hein dead?

 

No.

 

He has created an algorithm, that he has only made available to Spade and DI.

 

The dutch cunt.

 

 

http://www.newsweek.com/when-will-you-die-ai-can-now-predict-time-death-disturbing-advance-health-care-785990

[Sir Creep 7,070]

A Smith Falls, Ont., bio-cremation company that offers what it calls an "eco-friendly alternative to flame-based cremation or casket burials" has had its operating licence suspended.

The Bereavement Authority of Ontario suspended the licence for Hilton's Aquagreen Dispositions Jan. 24.

"The immediate suspension is believed to be in the public interest," the authority wrote in a brief statement. "The past conduct of the licensee and interested persons are believed to be inconsistent with the legal criteria for continued licensure."

Hilton's Aquagreen Dispositions uses a process that blends water with an alkali solution of potassium hydroxide to break human bodies down to bone ash. The company came under fire in 2016 when it was revealed the liquid byproduct is then drained into the town's sewage system.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Nearly four decades after the unexplained drowning death of Hollywood star Natalie Wood, Los Angeles County Sheriff's investigators tell "48 Hours" that her then-husband, actor Robert Wagner, is now a person of interest. Investigators want to speak with Wagner about the circumstances surrounding her death one night in 1981, they say in interviews for "Natalie Wood: Death in Dark Water" .

Yaawwwnn
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[msc 18,443]

He still lives in LA, right? If they want to talk to him, why not go to his door instead of announcing it on the TV?

 

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a potential 'cancer vaccine' which looks to put the DL out of business.
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[charon 4,943]

Meh, better universities than that claimed the same last year.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

A Pediatrician Shares Life’s Meaning From His Talks With Dying Kids

These children have already figured out what’s important.

Alastair McAlpine, a palliative pediatrician from Cape Town, South Africa, decided to present a few of these bigger philosophical questions to his patients. He asked what they had enjoyed about life and the people, places and things that suffused their lives with meaning.  It turns out the kids, ages 4 to 9, had an abundance of good advice to share.

 

Grab some Kleenex you heartless bastards.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

An article saying 'STOP with the diet soda causes cancer' nonsense.
That's the article talking, not Sir Creep.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

New podcast: Death 101 — Jessica Zitter talks about the realities of dying.

 

"In October 2017, Zitter, an ICU and palliative care physician at Highland Hospital in Oakland, sat down with Amy Tobin, CEO of the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay, at the Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas in Berkeley. Uncharted is a production of Berkeleyside.

The pair talked about why we have to address the “End-of-Life Conveyor Belt” where the dying are intubated, catheterized, and die attached to machines, often without even knowing they are dying. Zitter also offered tips on how to have difficult, but necessary, conversations about death with our children."
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Two years ago archaeologists uncovered and examined unique stone slave quarters on what was the Belvoir Plantation in Crownsville, MD. Now they have found the resting place for some of those who died in bondage there.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

In their recent blueprint for research on priority diseases that could cause a pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) added a new potential threat: Disease X.
The pandemic is coming!
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

"Bruce's Cancer Funtime Blog: My journey from diagnosis to death or glory."

At least the bloke has a wonderful sense of humour about it all.  Actually interesting and informative should someone get prostate cancer.  
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

A discussion about the 'imminent' head transplant operation that will occur in human history, and how it may happen in China sooner than you think.  Where is that boneheaded Ruskie we bought into?

"Canavero estimates the cost of the first head transplant at $100 million."
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Someone has uploaded (to Wiki) a list of recreational caving fatalities in the United Kingdom. It includes all verified deaths associated with the exploration of natural caves and disused mines in the modern era (post 1880). 
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Philadelphia bicyclists go on the 'Ride of Silence' to both commemorate those who have died in bicycle related incidents in the past year, and to bring awareness to issues of bicycles and vehicles sharing the roadways.

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[charon 4,943]

Palliative Care in the Shire.

 

Who'd've thunk.

 

Patients last 20 days longer in the South.

 

Moved in days afore demise ;

North - 35

South - 55

 

 

Was on radio so no link, study by Leeds Uni I think.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

10 books in which the main character is dying from a terminal illness.

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[alt obits guy 3,371]

In case you want to know who's died in the house where you live. (U.S. only and not free.)

 

https://www.diedinhouse.com/

 

[Bibliogryphon 9,579]

22 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

In case you want to know who's died in the house where you live. (U.S. only and not free.)

 

https://www.diedinhouse.com/

 

When we were house hunting in 1997. We looked at a spacious semi-detached and it was tatty but comfortable at the end of the tour the estate agent took a deep breath and said "The owners have asked me to make it known to any potential buyers that the previous occupant took his own life in this house". Mrs Biblo was outta there like a shot.

[Toast 16,140]

12 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

When we were house hunting in 1997. We looked at a spacious semi-detached and it was tatty but comfortable at the end of the tour the estate agent took a deep breath and said "The owners have asked me to make it known to any potential buyers that the previous occupant took his own life in this house". Mrs Biblo was outta there like a shot.

 

Wouldn't bother me in the least. 

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16 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

When we were house hunting in 1997. We looked at a spacious semi-detached and it was tatty but comfortable at the end of the tour the estate agent took a deep breath and said "The owners have asked me to make it known to any potential buyers that the previous occupant took his own life in this house". Mrs Biblo was outta there like a shot.

 

1 minute ago, Toast said:

 

Wouldn't bother me in the least. 

 

Aye, I live in a tenement built at least 120 years ago. In Glasgow. I expect the walls are dripping with blood, historically speaking.

 

I did once find out a Victorian funeral wake type thing complete with viewing of the deceased had happened in mum's house. As a history lover, she was v excited!