paddyfool 379 Posted January 14, 2019 18 hours ago, charon said: Our American cousins, are more likely to die of an opiod o/d than in a car crash https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/14/odds-dying-opioid-overdose-higher-than-car-crash-analysis-finds/2567996002/ And note that the 49,000 figure is specifically opioid overdoses alone; the total USA overdose death toll last year came to 72,000, nearly half again as many. And according to the UN office on drugs and crime, the USA has the highest drug overdose rate per capita of any country in the world; unsurprising as the total worldwide drug overdose death tally came to 160,000 in 2015. Meaning, most likely, that the 4% of the world's population who live in the USA account for more than 40% of all drug overdose deaths worldwide. Within the USA, the single worst hit state is West Virginia, with an annual mortality of 57.8 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people per year, or 1 in every 2,000 people dying of an overdose each year. EDIT: It's no surprise, then, that West Virginia has such a low life expectancy; at 75.4 years, it comes in lower than Jamaica, Serbia, or Algeria. Which is not to say the situation is great elsewhere either. The UK has also been setting new drug overdose death records for itself in recent years, with a record 3,744 drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales in 2016, for instance. The worst hit region, the Northeast, has an annual mortality of 7.7 drug misuse deaths per 100,000 people per year. EDIT: Also, if the US are world champions, the UK are EU champions, with the highest rate of drug-related deaths of any EU country, and accounting for 31% of the EU total. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Fellatio Nelson 6,219 Posted January 15, 2019 On 14/01/2019 at 18:04, paddyfool said: And note that the 49,000 figure is specifically opioid overdoses alone; the total USA overdose death toll last year came to 72,000, nearly half again as many. And according to the UN office on drugs and crime, the USA has the highest drug overdose rate per capita of any country in the world; unsurprising as the total worldwide drug overdose death tally came to 160,000 in 2015. Meaning, most likely, that the 4% of the world's population who live in the USA account for more than 40% of all drug overdose deaths worldwide. Within the USA, the single worst hit state is West Virginia, with an annual mortality of 57.8 drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people per year, or 1 in every 2,000 people dying of an overdose each year. EDIT: It's no surprise, then, that West Virginia has such a low life expectancy; at 75.4 years, it comes in lower than Jamaica, Serbia, or Algeria. Which is not to say the situation is great elsewhere either. The UK has also been setting new drug overdose death records for itself in recent years, with a record 3,744 drug poisoning deaths in England and Wales in 2016, for instance. The worst hit region, the Northeast, has an annual mortality of 7.7 drug misuse deaths per 100,000 people per year. EDIT: Also, if the US are world champions, the UK are EU champions, with the highest rate of drug-related deaths of any EU country, and accounting for 31% of the EU total. I bet you are an absolute fucking scream at parties. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Lord Fellatio Nelson said: I bet you are an absolute fucking scream at parties. Back at you, miseryguts :-) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,727 Posted January 24, 2019 Article about UK cancer survival rates Quite a lot of info on one year survival rates in this article and the link which as we operate in one year windows might be useful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 24, 2019 Canadians fast tracking death notices after digital upgrade. Obits through faster then.... https://www.timescolonist.com/changes-to-death-notice-system-moves-slowly-despite-feds-bid-to-fast-track-work-1.23610971 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted January 25, 2019 Solid new documentary out on BBC iPlayer for the next 29 days entitled "We need to talk about death": https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0c10f7h/horizon-2019-we-need-to-talk-about-death It's about palliative care, how to maximise quality of end of life, and achieve a good death. Well worth a look. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 30, 2019 The rise in Dutch pulling the plug. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47047579 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 4, 2019 Happy "World Cancer Day" folks. https://ourworldindata.org/cancer-death-rates-are-falling-five-year-survival-rates-are-rising 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 16, 2019 Interesting bit on hospice care, and that in this case is cheaper than continuing his treatment, and he's lived way longer in better health. *Choose him for the Cup at your peril. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article226362700.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 19, 2019 If Predictor cleans up on the various pools next year, we will know why.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47292887 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 22, 2019 Lolololol if she ups her game we are redundant https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-47297831 Given the gift of "The Cure" by a man she met in Austria 40 years ago lol. Once she was asked by a farmer to cure a flock of sheep of the contagious ovine skin condition orf. "I never knew I had a cure for that," she told BBC News NI. "But he rang back three days later to say it had gone," she said. Magnificent read. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted March 7, 2019 Another life expectancy drop in the UK has been noted, this time by 5 months amongst over-65s: https://www.ft.com/content/dc0d73f8-40d3-11e9-b896-fe36ec32aece Good news if you're a pensions fund exec, I suppose... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted March 11, 2019 The Wurlt we inhabit. Bloke gets telt he's not got long to live, by a robot. http://www.wafb.com/2019/03/11/california-man-learns-hes-dying-doctor-video-shown-robot/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bentrovato 1,089 Posted March 11, 2019 27 minutes ago, charon said: The Wurlt we inhabit. Bloke gets telt he's not got long to live, by a robot. http://www.wafb.com/2019/03/11/california-man-learns-hes-dying-doctor-video-shown-robot/ Surely he has asked Alexa for a second opinion. I did and she cured me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted April 1, 2019 Firearms deaths in the USA among children aged 1 to 4 have nearly doubled over the last ten years: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/news/Pages/Growing-Popularity-of-Handguns-Increases-Deaths-of-Young-Children.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3te1Usw0ti88gMd1GC-hjGm-IkblJlQ22krelXo3P4GeKPN9W9uMr1-dk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted April 10, 2019 It's not just celebs who've had a quiet spell... overall deaths in england and wales have been below average almost every week in the first quarter of this year, in spite of the ageing population etc: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales Dare I ask if the reaper has been napping? (Although I'd guess the most likely causes are mild weather and a quiet flu season). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paddyfool 379 Posted April 17, 2019 Meanwhile, 1200 people die in measles outbreak in Madagascar https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/measles-outbreak-madagascar-africa-vaccination-health-a8870816.html Part of a global picture where four times as many measles cases have been reported in the first three months of 2019 as in the first three months of 2018 https://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/measles-data-2019/en/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 25, 2019 https://thecultivatingproject.com/why-we-need-dismal-poems-about-death-and-maggots/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 28, 2019 This pink coffin pool float (complete with lid) was created by Canadian designers Andrew Greenbaum and Ian Felton and launched by Pom Pom Floats. SC 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,979 Posted May 5, 2019 The "Departure Lounge" - a place to come to terms with mortality: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/05/welcome-to-the-deaprture-lounge-destination-death "Death has been a zeitgeist subject for some years now – witness the Death Café phenomenon, the growth of conferences and books on dying and TV series like the recent Ricky Gervais Netflix comedy After Life. " No mention of the DeathList though - but "Top Tips for a Good Death" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,654 Posted May 5, 2019 Site of John - Elephant Man - Merrick's burial identified. Obviously his skeleton is preserved but the stuff they scraped off it was buried in a London cemetary and the location forgotton - until someone spotted a badly misshapen tree! (Maybe I made the last bit up) Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48149855 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted May 5, 2019 Save My Ink Forever, a family-run business based in Cleveland, Ohio, works with funeral homes in the US, the UK, and Canada to preserve the tattoos of people who have died, as a memorial for their loved ones. Oh it's every bit as gruesome as that sentence sounds. Here's the photo from the article, which I am guessing is an example of their finest work. Think it would look nice above the dining table. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clorox Bleachman 2,438 Posted May 8, 2019 What would you have as your funeral song? An interesting point is that some people choose songs they loathed in life as a piss-take. Personally, I don't hate the people in my life enough to have them sit through sodding Westlife. Late aunt went with Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Maw has made it very clear that she wants this specific remix of Adagio for Strings: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,146 Posted May 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Clorox Bleachman said: What would you have as your funeral song? An interesting point is that some people choose songs they loathed in life as a piss-take. Personally, I don't hate the people in my life enough to have them sit through sodding Westlife. Late aunt went with Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Maw has made it very clear that she wants this specific remix of Adagio for Strings: Ahhh, I'll get stuck into the comments later. Often some witty stuff in the Grauniad BTL. But this is well worth its own thread on here. Don't we have one? I once started a thread on songs featuring death, but I can't remember if there's one for funeral music. If not, we need one. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
runebomme 377 Posted May 8, 2019 14 minutes ago, Toast said: Ahhh, I'll get stuck into the comments later. Often some witty stuff in the Grauniad BTL. But this is well worth its own thread on here. Don't we have one? I once started a thread on songs featuring death, but I can't remember if there's one for funeral music. If not, we need one. "I once started a thread on songs featuring death" as one does Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
