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That doctors admitted to euthanizing patients at Memorial Medical Center hospital in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina because their only other option was to leave them to die. Several were charged but have defended their decisions as the only humane choice in an impossible situation. One patient in particular was not terminal, but due to his size, was unable to be moved.

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Don't get fat, kids. Despite all this body positivity it really isn't good for you. From a fat bloke.

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I look at it from this perspective. I try not to hate myself because I am overweight but I do not love being overweight.

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Well…. I think there is a big difference between being overweight and being so fat, that you „cannot be moved“. No pun intended. (I am overweight, too)

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Just stay healthy, if you nourish your body well and move it regulary, you may stay overweighted, but be more healthy than a thin person,that's lazy and loves junk food I am overweighted too,but I hike a lot, don't have any back pain and my bloodresults are all fine.. healthy comes in many forms and so do unhealthy

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Body positivity is about liking yourself despite what outside sources may want you to feel. It is about lightening the mental weight of "not good enough" in order to improve your mental health, which is directly linked to your physical health. "Don't get fat" is a simplistic and unrealistic approach, kids. Life happens. S**t happens. Give yourself grace and focus on the tiny, everyday wins in order to shape a mind that sees a slip not as a moral failure, but an inevitable part of being human, and a reason to cheer yourself on on your own personal, lifelong journey of self care.

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Body positivity. If the US wasn't poisoning us with the garbage they deem food, there wouldn't be a glut of obese people desperately attempting to make their obesity a positive. There is no health benefit to corn syrup in damn near every product.

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What Riley Quinn said; not dissing fat people - but look at what we are eating, folks!

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I read an article on it — he wasn’t too terribly big (380lbs, not small by any means) but he was a paraplegic.

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Correct - from another fat bloke.

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Currently on a program to lose some weight myself.

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I love my body a whole lot. But I do not like the size it has gotten. I don't really care about fat rolls. I care that I physically take up so much room and that sometimes there just ain't room for me to be comfortable in. Also, I have asthma-like lungs because of my obesity. I hate that. I can't fit the clothes I want to wear so I wear clothes that I fit. I hate that. Issues with my skin that requires creams with hormonal stuff in. I hate it. And I really want to get slimmer. But my brain makes it so damn hard!

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Why is euthanasia okay for pets but not for humans? This needs to change

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Because you can't benefit financially from a pet's death. But you can benefit from euthanising your awkward parent and inherit his house.

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That's a good answer, but it only tells us why they (humans and pets) need to be treated differently. OP seems to be asking why there is any resistance to euthanasia for humans at all. As long as it's done right, it should be perfectly legal.

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The problem is that without implementation, ideas are just ideas. And unless it can be implemented perfectly from day one, you would be legalising murder. Politicians are too timid to raise the issue and deal with the safeguards needed. I agree there should be a way, but who could guarantee that a person was not being pressured, guilt tripped, or manipulated into agreeing. A DNR, not taking action, is very different to euthanasia, actively killing. I wouldn't want to be the guy opening that can of worms.

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We can't "guarantee" anything. We can't guarantee that a woman isnt being pressured into getting breast implants by her pimp or husband. In no other situation do we deny people the right to do something bevause of the subjective, irrational standard of "perfect implementation". You're imagining barriers to legalized euthanasia that dont exist.

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On the contrary, people are denied medical treatment *for themselves* all the time even for treatment that will improve their lives. Women wanting sterilization, Trans people wanting gender affirmation surgery, chronic pain sufferers or mental health patients wanting to try restricted medication hoping maybe they WON'T actively wish for death. And there is such a thing as euthanasia. By the patient if they can consent, or by a designated person (spouse, medical POA, DNR) if not. Death is available, but rightly so, not an easy act for others to decide for you.

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1. People are not denied medical treatment for the reasons being discussed -- "imperfect implementation". There treatments you're discussing are denied for other reasons. 2. "Death is available". Not in the U.S. Physician assisted suicide is only legal in 10 states, and euthanasia is illegal in all 50.

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In the US, it's the politicians who are stopping death with dignity (euthanasia) being implemented in their state. Few states have politicians that have allowed it. I'm still not sure why a politician has control over my health when they are not physicians.

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I'm sure there wud be stringet and rigorous tests done 2 absolutely confirm that the "applicant" is well prepared...so get over yourself

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Are you suggesting pets and humans are the same?

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Perhaps they’re suggesting that both pets and humans deserve equal amounts of dignity and compassion in the face of unrelenting, hopeless pain?

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You're right, pets don't decide to be euthanized, people take that decision for them because they care. But humans can't take that decision for themselves.

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Why not?

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What they did was more humane than leaving them to drown slowly.

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If you are leaving a concious patient to drown because they can't be moved, then the only humane thing to do is to offer them the option. Frankly, I believe that it should be every patients right to request euthanasia rather than face a slow and painful death, irreversable physical or mental deterioration, or indignity and loss of independance.

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Leaving them there would only be prolonging their deaths not their lives.

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During the peak of the pandemic, a doctor publicly admitted that they treated selectively the covid patients who had chances to survive. The ICUs were overcrowded, there was not enough medical staff or equipment - and patients kept coming in. And some of them, with underlying health conditions had little to zero chances of survival. Terrible to make such decisions.

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That's not a pandemic thing. That's triage. It happens in hospitals every day, in walk in clinics, during accidents and disasters... it saves more lives because it erases a large amount of debate during the crisis around "how do we decide, and who are we to decide?"

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Evacuations in the situation at Memorial were hard. They had to go so many steps up to a roof. I guess if they couldn't carry him up there, they didn't want to leave him to die.

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I get their side of it. The thought of those patients drowned by slowly rising water is horrifying. They gave them instead a quick, painless and probably peaceful end.

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"Give me the syringe, doc, and get out of here. I'll make that decision later."

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I can't find any credible info anywhere to support the euthanasia aspect of this story. Yes, ppl died and its likely that the staff ultimately had to leave them dead or alive or die themselves,and yes some a$$hole tried to prosecute one of the Dr's (and failed miserably) but nowhere is euthanasia discussed.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Medical_Center_and_Hurricane_Katrina

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That is IMO the moral thing. In a crisis, the sensible thing to do is to be utilitarian - focus on saving the most people. If it would take substantial effort to get someone out and stable, or the things they need are gone, and you need to go, like, yesterday, you need to leave them, or else the safety of others could be jeopardized. And given that if you live them, they will die, they can either die quickly or slowly. I would say it is the humane thing to do to kill someone who you must leave behind (or else others will die) instead of leaving them to suffer.

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What a heartbreaking situation to be in as a healthcare practitioner.

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I would not want to have to be in those decision making situations. 😔

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Because letting them die a slow, horrible death is by far the more humane approach according to the law, apparently. Why euthanasia is so frowned upon is based on religious views that have no sway with me.

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True compassion was shown by the staff here. What a truly horrific situation to have been faced with

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Wow! That would be a horrible thing to experience. On both parts!

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I applaud those doctors for doing what they had to do. It was netter than just leaving those patients to slowly and painfully die.

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This was a really interesting topic to understand about what doctors have to deal with during disasters or war. Sorry it's in spanish: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-62596159

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I would want the same.

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Patients could sign a DNR or other similar choice when entering hospital.

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I think this took courage. I would hope the doctors had the patients' consent.

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I have never heard this story anywhere ever - because it did not happen. What is your source?

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I lost my leg to a bug bite that I had no knowledge of getting. One day my ankle swelled up and I thought it was just me getting old. It got progressively worse, this was during covid so I didn't have a lot of options. After being up for a few days from pain and running a fever I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed as having a sprained ankle. They gave me pain medication which helped me sleep. I woke up after 18 hours to blisters under my ace bandage. I don't have any memory of anything until I woke up after my third surgery of them removing more and more of my leg. It was necrotizing fasciitis.

I lost everything from a medical misdiagnosis. I am currently just about starving to death as disability doesn't pay enough even though I worked my whole life and did everything I was supposed to.

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Gaze Detection - The human brain seems to be able to sense if someone is staring at us, even if we do not see the person at all. This ability has probably protected us from predators. So, if you have sometimes felt that someone was staring at you, chances are someone really was.

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Morgues prefer to hire women.

For the reason you assume.

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When Judith Barsi (The voice of Ducky in The Land before Time) was m*rdered by her father, she was halfway through doing voicework for All Dogs Go Heaven.

Her last recorded voice lines is her goodbye to Charlie played by Burt Reynolds. Reynolds recorded his lines after her death. It took him 63 takes to get through it and you can tell he's barely keeping it together when doing the scene:

https://youtu.be/HhEyYbmTh_Y?feature=shared.

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That the leading cause of death for a pregnant woman is m*rder.

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I'm a vet, and I would say the most horrifying thing I have to tell people is that I can't do anything for their animal. It feels horrible every single time I have to discuss palliative care or talk about it perhaps being "time" for their animal.

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There are orphanages full of kids who will never be adopted and many might not live long enough to "graduate" from the facility.

The reason is that these are kids rescued from, or abandoned by the child s*x trade. They have an eclectic selection of STDs. HIV is rife. And most have major emotional/psychological issues from the abuse they suffered.

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For a lot of people the first sign of cardiovascular disease is sudden death.

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Carbon dioxide was blamed for the deaths of around 1700 people in Cameroon, west Africa, in 1986 when a massive release of gas occurred from Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake. The clinical findings in 845 survivors seen at or admitted to hospital were compatible with exposure to an asphyxiant gas.

They were just sleeping when the lake released a giant cloud of CO2 and wiped out almost an entire village.

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During the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the flight data shows that the astronauts turned on their internal oxygen supplies *after* the explosion...so it's likely that some of them were still alive when they hit the water.

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Remember the crocodile that took the toddler at Disney?

A guy that worked there told me the toddler wasn’t consumed. The crocodile stashed it under some submerged roots to let it soften up for a few days before consuming it. They found the body before that.

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Supposedly global warming will cause spiders to slowly get bigger overtime.

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On February 3rd, 1998, twenty people died when a cable car situated near the ski resort town of Cavalese, Italy plummeted to the ground from 260 feet. It was caused when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, which was flying excessively fast and too low during a low-altitude training mission, ultimately severed the cable that supported the cable car as it was descending from Mount Cermis.

The disaster has been named the Strage del Cermis (Massacre of Cermis) in Italy. The pilot, Captain Richard J. Ashby, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, were ultimately deemed not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide for their roles in the disaster. However, they were found guilty of obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman upon being found to have **destroyed camcorder footage recorded from the plane's cockpit**.

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People that work with roaches, such as laboratory staff, reasearchers, and pest control personnel, often develop allergies to roaches....and preground packaged coffee.

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The American blood supply runs on about a 2-3 day buffer for most products. If for some reason the entire system shut down for a couple of weeks, people would die for lack of transfusions. And while at least 60% of our citizens are eligible to donate blood, only 5% of those people ever will. If that number went to around 8%, no blood bank would ever need to call you again.

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You are currently covered in millions upon billions of tiny little lifeforms; most of which are required for your continued existence. You are the entire universe to a litany of microscopic beings 🙂.

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50% of all plastics created have been since the year 2000

In recent brain samples inspected, 0.5% of the tissue was plastic by weight.

0.5% of our brains are now plastic. Most of the plastic found (40%] was polyethylene.

I cannot confirm this I'm only parroting it but it lives rent free in my head lately, like the plastic probably.

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Research suggests that people locked in comas or otherwise paralyzed are “conscious” and thinking the whole time.

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Every traditional disposable diaper ever made is still in a landfill and has not decomposed. One diaper takes 500 years to decompose. The best biodegradable ones take 50 years. That means, unless you were in cloth diapers, the ones you wore as a baby are still out there.

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Apparently Yellow Stone is becoming more active 🤷‍♂️ I’m in the blast zone so there’s that….

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This isn’t particularly existential or deep but Whales don’t actually die of old age. They die from drowning when they’re too old to resurface.

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Our crew went out to a mall to do some repair work in the main electrical room. The area around one of the main electrical panelswas cordoned off with safety tape. The entire top half of the panel was mostly fused. What wasn't fused together was badly burnt and melted. When we had all gotten into the electrical room our boss closed the door and said " full disclosure, that smell is burnt flesh. A maintenance man was working on the panel when a pry bar he had used to get the dead front off fell across the main lugs. Fortunately he did not survive. You will all be wearing full Hazmat gear while working in this room... EMS did try to get as much of him as they could out of the panel but there may be some...residue .".

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The history of Gynecology and the father of It is quite horrific to learn about. He essentially experimented on slaves without any form of anaesthesia.

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L'Angolo de Gigi, the iconic Italian restaurant run by chef Gigi Ferruzo, left an indelible mark on the culinary scene in the capital of Colombia in the 80's, not only for its exquisite flavors but also for the dark rumors that surrounded it. It was said that the gourmet dishes served there, located on the road to La Calera, were prepared with human flesh.

Little is known about Ferruzo because it's known that he was a butcher from a young age and emigrated from Italy to settle in Colombia. Over time, he began associating with influential politicians in the country, and his behavior changed so much that many compared him to a mobster. Rumors spread that these politicians were not only his friends but also the ones supplying the bodies he allegedly used in his cooking, because a supposed former member of the secret police claimed that the bodies from the wars against guerrillas and d**g trafficking were sold to Ferruzo and that, on the day of the Palace of Justice siege, he was allowed to select "the plumpest corpses". To this day, the whereabouts of these people are unknown and that is why one of the theories is that he cooked them and fed them to his diners.

The situation worsened when restaurant employees began to suspect something was wrong, as Ferruzo wouldn't allow anyone else to handle the meat because he claimed it was imported from Italy, sent by his sister, although she later denied this. Eventually, after these rumors circulated, L'Angolo de Gigi closed its doors, and Ferruzo disappeared over 40 years ago, leaving his fate shrouded in mystery. No one knows what happened to him.

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During time working at Pearl Harbor National Memorial I came across two horrifying tidbits. When the USS Oklahoma rolled over it trapped sailors inside with no way of rescuing them. Cutting through the hull was impossible, a single gap would have caused the air pocket to collapse and flood the compartment. The workers still heard banging on hull during Christmas, nearly three weeks after the attack and plugged their ears with cotton to drown it out.

The second tidbit is that by the time the workers got the ship upright and drained, workers were only collecting bits and pieces of remains. When caskets of the unknown sailors were exhumed to begin DNA identification they discovered over 100 different strands of DNA from a single coffin.

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On very rare occasions, a corpse can ‘give birth’. If a pregnant person dies, then certain results of decomposition, such as bloating, can force the fetus out of the womb, giving the illusion of Corpse Birth.

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Prions. Aka a misfolded protein in the brain that causes other proteins to misfold. This literally causes "sponge brain" or large holes in the brain. It is always fatal, and there is no known cure or treatment to slow the progression.

Prion disease can be contagious or genetic. The contagious form cannot be k*lled by extreme heat, meaning that people with prion disease who have to have surgery, those instruments used during surgery cannot be sterilized.

The most prevalent contagious form of prion disease is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka Mad Cow Disease. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is another common form of prion disease, which affects mostly deer. While there are no human cases of CWD, it is theorized that the disease could be capable of infecting humans.

Prion disease can also be "sporadic" meaning the cause is not genetic or contagious, ultimately unknown. The most common form of prion disease, CJD, is mostly sporadic.

Prion disease can lay dormant in the body for years. But once it is "activated", the average prognosis is about 1 year.

TL;DR: Prions make holes in your brain that you will ultimately die from. It can be contagious, genetic, or idiopathic. Once the disease is active, you have, at most, a couple years to live. There is no cure or treatment to slow the disease at this time.

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On November 25, 1988, a Japanese high school girl named Junko Furuta was threatened and brought to the house of a teenager who, along with his friends, proceed to torture and r*pe the the girl countless times for 44 days straight. in the end, Furuta was severely malnourished and was left in an incredibly weakened mental and physical state. On January 4, 1988, she was k*lled after being beaten up and having her face burned by the group of boys. Less than 24 hours after her death, her body was wrapped in a blanked, placed in a travel bag, put inside a metal drum which was filled with wet cement, and dumped in a construction site in Tokyo.

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After a hip broken or after hip surgery, after 60yo, you have 50% chance of dying in the next 2 years. Like flipping a coin.

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The Byford Dolphin accident. November 5, 1983.

4 saturation divers were in a decompression chamber which was pressurized to 9 atmospheres, when one of the tenders outside released the docking collar of the diving bell before the diver inside had closed the hatch all the way, resulting in an explosive decompression of the chamber, k*lling all 4 of the divers and the tender who caused it. The diver who was near the hatch was sucked out of the chamber from a small gap along with all the air rushing out. Due to lack of better words, he was literally turned into pulp and his remains were sprayed all over the deck outside.

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You can just die completely randomly, I knew a healthy dude in college and he sneezed to death, he sneezed 6 times in quick succession and died of a brain aneurism, I wasn't there when it happened though, it happened when he was at home.

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We are either alone in the universe or we are not alone in the universe.

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1 out of 3 women and 1 out of 4 men will have cancer .

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Right now is the youngest you will ever be again.

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>In early May of 1898, a ten-year-old boy named Joseph Bufonchio was playing at the corner of Third and Jackson in what was known as the Great Jackson Street Chuckhole—it was eight feet deep and sixteen feet wide. The local children loved to play in these large pools of muck. These children would build rafts and push themselves across these miniature lakes by using poles to push them along. In doing so, at 4:30pm Joseph’s pole got stuck at the bottom of the chuckhole, and he fell in and sank to the bottom. This event was such a huge spectacle that up to 2000 voyeurs watched at what was described as a comical event as men clumsily struggled to retrieve the boy’s body. One by one, they fell into the muddy mess as the crowd cheered and laughed. It wasn’t until Joseph’s father arrived and yelled out to the crowd: “It is my poor boy that has been drowned. Have you no regard for my grief?” Just then, silence fell over the great chuck hole. It wasn’t until 6:00pm that they recovered his body, and he was rushed to a local bathhouse, where Dr. Rogers who theorized was that a body could be revived even after it had been in the water for several hours. He worked on the boy’s body until 9:00pm with no success.

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Because there will always be pregnant women, the average skeleton per body is greater than 1.

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When you make a mistake while scuba diving, you have the rest of your life to fix it.

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A guy accidentally threw his child into helicopter blades. His wife left him and he k*lled himself later. I think about it everyday.

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Once you begin to show signs of rabies, it's already too late to do anything about it. You have an inevitable and terrifying death ahead of you. Also, it's possible to get rabies from even a tiny, unnoticeable scratch, possibly while you're sleeping. If you've been camping in the last couple months, you could have it right now and not even know it.

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The chainsaw was originally a medical tool used during birth. They cut your pelvis in half to help get the baby out. It was invented in the 1800s and was hand powered.

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Our world as we know it can be instantly eviscerated by quasar, a dying suns last hoorah pretty much. It send big a*s laser beams out into their surroundings and as you could think, those beams have the power of the sun in them. And we cant see them coming :).

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Soft-shelled crabs are just crabs that are molting. You're eating them whole, shell and all, it's just a gross, green molting version of their shell that's still growing.

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George Washington's false teeth are not made from wood.

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If you ever eat maggots and don’t chew them properly, a thing called myiasis happens where they eat your intestines.

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Pinky toes can auto amputate. It's exactly what it sounds like, and once it starts, you can't stop it.

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