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Australia’s oldest scientist David Goodall just turned 104 and his birthday wish is to die
SCMP ^ | May 2, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 05/10/2018 10:09:22 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: a fool in paradise

“Or should he have just killed himself 30 years earlier?”

That was before the gun roundup. Could have simply bought his gun and ended it right there. He reminds me of billionaires who want to raise taxes on everyone. Yea, not too hard to get by, when your take home ‘pay’ drops from $300M to $250M per year due to the higher taxes, but not quite as easy for a family when their take home pay drops from $30,000 to $25,000.


21 posted on 05/11/2018 3:01:41 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Trump20162020

What an asshole.


22 posted on 05/11/2018 3:19:35 AM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Trump20162020
pure propaganda.

he said he'd like to die because his life was worthless, and instead of saying: but grandpa we love you and that's not true, he got a cheering section and lots of publicity and positive feedback from the death pushing crowd.

This is not compassion: This is propaganda, to push the idea that the old and useless should “volunteer” to kill themselves.

In ten years, they'll be killing the senile, handicapped babies and those who cost too much to treat.

23 posted on 05/11/2018 3:37:41 AM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Suicide is very risky for your eternal soul - the only sin you can’t ever ask God forgiveness for.

Sometimes you can. A girl I knew had known a depressed fellow who set himself on fire. He lived long enough to have the priest hear his confession and pray for forgiveness, perfectly conscious.
24 posted on 05/11/2018 3:53:09 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Trump20162020

The left celebrates death, and wants everyone to die at age 75.
If they don’t do it voluntarily, they want to do it to them.


25 posted on 05/11/2018 4:46:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: Trump20162020

If Dr Mengele had thought of using the term “assisted suicide” he might have become the Surgeon General of post-war Germany.


26 posted on 05/11/2018 5:19:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: LadyDoc
This is propaganda, to push the idea that the old and useless should “volunteer” to kill themselves.

Having worked at one of the major Boston hospitals for decades I can assure you that with an attitude like that you wouldn't have lasted very long in Boston regardless of how skilled you may have been.

But my guess is that you know that.

27 posted on 05/11/2018 5:23:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: ReaganGeneration2
Suicide is very risky for your eternal soul - the only sin you can’t ever ask God forgiveness for.

I'd be willing to bet that God fully understands that concept of brain disorders and also understands that certain chemical imbalances in the brain can cause *profound* disorders in thinking.My guess is that He would be willing to forgive suicides brought about by such disorders.

Of course that doesn't necessarily apply in *this* case.

28 posted on 05/11/2018 5:28:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Secret Agent Man

Announce that he has something really damaging to the krinton machine and going public.

Definitely assisted suicide.


29 posted on 05/11/2018 5:42:20 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Trump20162020

Australia has socialized medicine so he can surely get his wish.

He just needs to file form 1008-009-53zed96stroke7 in triplicate.


30 posted on 05/11/2018 6:10:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: wally_bert

Taking one’s own life is a fundamental right.


31 posted on 05/11/2018 6:17:39 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: sauropod

One can argue who is the force. I can say from experience that if He is not willing to let you go at that time, you won’t go. I tried a time or two in my youth. I’m still here.


32 posted on 05/11/2018 6:41:13 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: caww

What an idiot.....the guy still had his mind well in tact and no serious discomfort...

...

That’s easy for you to say.


33 posted on 05/11/2018 6:52:40 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Trump20162020

An open-shut case for God. He gave that man 104+ years, and he couldn’t figure it out.


34 posted on 05/11/2018 10:24:29 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: GnuThere

That could happen regardless.


35 posted on 05/11/2018 12:09:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

104 years old. All his friends are dead. I wouldn’t want to live that long without ecstasy legalization + a big supply of Taylor Swift pics(in the nude of course).


36 posted on 05/11/2018 2:19:35 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The Boston medical schools and thr NEJM have been pushing euthanasia since I worked there in the early 1990s.

But in Dorchester or in the black and hispanic neighborhoods, it is not popular...and given the snobs and racism in the doctors there the real danger is these doctors pushing non treatment decisions as just happened to that kid in England.

And since then I worked with the rural poor both whites and minorities, so no problem.


37 posted on 05/12/2018 4:33:48 AM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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