EM/ICU doc here with over 10yrs of experience.

While it's not quite a diagnosis, experience has taught me to take very seriously when a patient states he's about to die, even if he appears in a stable/controlled condition.

Patients who have a life-threatening condition usually have a premonition about their imminent decompensation, which is usually preceded by very subtle signs of worsening that may be confounded with pretty much anything that happens on a resuscitation room or on the back of an ambulance.

I've had patients who appeared to be in a completely stable condition, with acute conditions where cardiac arrest was not foreseeable (example: motorcycle accident with single limb injury), who briefly mentioned they think they are about to die before suddenly entering in cardiac arrest due to a malignant arrhythmia.

It's believed that patients may perceive a sudden drop of blood pressure and/or the usual release and spike of adrenaline and other catecholamines as "imminent death", but the reason why this happens is not clear. Some we are able to return, others we lose, or "recover" them to a state where death would be better.

The current social wars were designed to distract us from the trillions of dollars that went from the middle class to the wealthy. It will continue to happen while people fight over body parts and bedroom activities. The people almost broke through with Occupy Wall St. but the PTB continue to divide people to make sure it can't happen again.

Those Facebook memes of posting a current selfie and a photo of you taken 10 years ago, is to program facial recognition software.

Treating all people with equal respect and kindness, and never overlooking someone or treating them as "lesser" because they are shy, disabled, overweight, a different race/culture, unattractive, homeless, elderly, not "neuro-typical", etc..

I can appear to be a quite stand-offish person and it can be difficult to get to know me. I'm not very good at accepting help or being the social butterfly, my humour can be a bit "off" sometimes, so I tend to get overlooked a lot or assumed to be odd or difficult. It's very attractive to me if I get "seen" and someone actually gets me, but it happens very rarely - which is good because I don't tend to have much energy for being social, but I do love to flirt and I'm surprisingly good at it, so when it does happen it's dynamite! It really doesn't matter to me what someone looks like or their social standing, either, I can recognise good looks but it's utterly meaningless to me if there's no connection.

Niblings.

Alpha male.

Slit.

Unalive.