Death Links

[MarcoPolo 1]

Hello,

I'm here for a pretty long time but never posted before (just passive reader ). I wish to inform you guys and gals, that there is pretty useful Android app that shows recent death names based on Wikipedia: Who Has Died Recently

 

Cheers!

[Sir Creep 7,070]

NYTimes article: The Symptoms of Dying.
"Dying has its own biology and symptoms. It’s a diagnosis in itself. While the weeks and days leading up to death can vary from person to person, the hours before death are similar across the vast majority of human afflictions."
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Hormel sees potential new customers for its shelf-stable foods: cancer patients.

The company known for Spam canned meats and Dinty Moore stews is promoting microwavable meals it says cater to people who are going through chemotherapy and are sensitive to certain tastes. Its Vital Cuisine meals, launched last year, are also marketed as delivering the nutrients and convenience people might want if they’re too exhausted to cook or leave the house for food.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

The (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration approves the use of a new drug to fight ALS.  Too late for Steve Gleasons of the world, but harder to pick them in the future if even remotely successful.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

VERY cool article about some kid in British Columbia who decided to track down the final resting places of all the B.C. premiers in history, only to find one missing.
I promise it's worth the quick read.  "It has the locations of those graves and even the plot numbers should anyone want to retrace his steps."
There's a lot of Sir Creep in this story, and I am guessing a lot of each of you as well, or else why would you be here.  This guy is an honorary member of the site, I so nominate.

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[Sir Creep 7,070]

On 8/9/2017 at 09:08, Sir Creep said:

The (U.S.) Food and Drug Administration approves the use of a new drug to fight ALS.  Too late for Steve Gleasons of the world, but harder to pick them in the future if even remotely successful.

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A man in Pittsburgh is the first to receive the new FDA-approved drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).  Rene Fogarty is the first person in the U.S. to get the new drug called Radicava.

Let's see how it goes.  I honestly DO hope for the best, so we  (deadpoolers) can consider hearing someone got ALS about the same as they were diagnosed as diabetic -- virtually meaningless.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

A brief but informative article about brain cancer (Glioblastoma) and statistical data.  Most useful thing here is "the average survival time from diagnosis is 14 months with treatment."
Keep that in mind when considering old man John McCain, etc., for 2018.
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[ajlposh 549]

I just created a subreddit where you can submit news about a celebrity being hospitalized, in failing health, etc.  Subscribe if you are a redditor!

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/CelebrityDeathWatch/

[charon 4,943]

All very noble, but, isn't that kinda the point of the forum? Or is reddit something else?

[gcreptile 10,964]

Guardian article on the 100 club:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/27/centenarians-record-number-live-to-100-happy-

[gcreptile 10,964]

Daily Mail article on japanese undertakers and their competition to dress the dead the best.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4825214/Female-Japanese-undertaker-wins-corpse-dressing-contest.html

[Sir Creep 7,070]

A little philosophy for you today.

https://www.livescience.com/60431-do-animals-murder-each-other.html
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[theoldlady 2,297]

On 8/27/2017 at 19:12, gcreptile said:

Daily Mail article on japanese undertakers and their competition to dress the dead the best.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4825214/Female-Japanese-undertaker-wins-corpse-dressing-contest.html

Well this certainly puts a new slant on things.

[Drewsky1211 4,731]

I found a news article about this website on CNN Chile...

http://www.cnnchile.com/noticia/2017/09/21/deathlist-ya-son-once-los-aciertos-en-este-2017

[Joey Russ 7,220]

5 minutes ago, Drewsky1211 said:

I found a news article about this website on CNN Chile...

http://www.cnnchile.com/noticia/2017/09/21/deathlist-ya-son-once-los-aciertos-en-este-2017

Next time post here. Oh, and this isn't the first time that particular site mentioned us... 

 

[YoungWillz 21,026]

Ah, CNN Chile, the poor relation of Voodoo Chile...

[Toast 16,129]

https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath

 

Ask A Mortician - about all sorts of deathly things.

[The Ashes Urn 1,355]

I found this Youtube channel interesting:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Me24mLlL2dKQP2zKDifQQ

[gcreptile 10,964]

The "death positivity" movement:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/27/caitlin-doughty-death-positivity

[Toast 16,129]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

The "death positivity" movement:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/27/caitlin-doughty-death-positivity

Ah!  This is the same lady as in my Y/T link a couple of posts above.

[gcreptile 10,964]

20 hours ago, Toast said:

Ah!  This is the same lady as in my Y/T link a couple of posts above.

True! Maybe she's a regular around here...maybe she is you?

[Toast 16,129]

7 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

True! Maybe she's a regular around here...maybe she is you?

No!  She is American. 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

This year's Day of the Dead parade in Mexico city honours those who died in the Mexican earthquakes, as well as the rescuers.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

One of the most heart-warming stories in video games this year was the discovery in September that the Nintendo Switch console contained a secret tribute to the beloved Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata, who died in 2015 at the age of 55. But Nintendo doesn’t want to talk about it, and it’s not clear why.
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[Sir Creep 7,070]

Michigan police officer uses a pen till it dies, event makes the newspaper.  Slow news cycle.

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