I thought I’d read that Japan is actually worse on health care, among first-world nations? Not that being number two is any better…
Helium to a mask strapped around the face isn’t going to pose a risk at a typical flow rate. Helium rises very quickly. Like @renke pointed out, a couple of deep breaths is sufficient to lose consciousness, but overall this whole conversation illustrates the perils of not having good formal medical guidance and assistance because the law doesn’t allow it. I don’t envy anyone who’s in a position to make these choices.
I was thinking of something else, in any case it’s not important because my thinking was wrong.
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Just for the record, I love every part of that comment and want to quote it to people.
He said that his wife had told him in the past that she wanted to die,
It’s not as concrete as it should be, but…
the discussion about gasses was interesting, but without my participation : )
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Yes, and she may well have.
For euthanasia to be acceptable in society, people need to have confidence that when it is applied it is applied properly i.e. in according with the wishes of the person. His action may help to bring to the spotlight that there is a need for a solution so people do not have to die and suffer worse than animals, but a note would have helped him too. With a proper note (without duress) he’d have a lot less legal trouble.
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Doh! The bad thing is that I referenced my write up of that particular customer interaction that I wrote back in 2007. No one had pointed that out in 9 years? Gah.
Yeah, even East Berlin wouldn’t be quite right, but I’m still drawing a blank on specific industrialized cities in communistic countries. (Although I stand by my statement that they’re not exactly examples of environmental concern, in any case.)
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I pulled this up on Netflix and started watching.
God damnit, America.
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It’s soooooo good.
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Krakow, Dzerzhinsk, and Norilsk would all work.
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I always thought he got a rough time. It wasn’t like he was Harold Shipman, killing old ladies for their money.
Watching that got me all like
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The really stupid part. Think about this:
Which is cheaper. The pain meds, OR, the trial + all costs associated with jailing the husband.
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but healthcare costs are un-American, while the security and jail system is worth every cent
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Can’t like it. But I agree.
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Good thing I’m Australian then. In a way it makes it worse. It’s like watching that guy fall over again and again and not succeeding in standing up and you keep shouting “Crawl to the edge and THEN stand up” and he ignores you and keeps on falling over again and again. All because of a completely destroyed “Pride”
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But then, I’m pretty Weberian
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When all you’ve got is historical materialism, everything looks like an embedded cultural influence.
Unfortunately, Emile Durkheim’s darker works might have more direct parellels here…
I lived in London in the early-mid 1980’s, and on many days the pollution rivaled your 1989 shot of Bitterfeld. I’d blow my nose when I got home at the end of the day, and what would come out was pure black. And when I washed my clothes by hand the initial wash water was similarly very dark grey. I’d have to do several washes and then rinses to really get the sludge from the air out of my clothing.
Coal, and the old type of diesel…that stuff was truly toxic.
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Sun Kil Moon, “Jim Wise” - lyrics here
"Jim Wise killed his wife out of love for her at her bedside…"
And the (heartbreaking) song itself:
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