IS IT distressing to experience consciousness slipping away or something people can accept with equanimity? Are there any surprises in store as our existence draws to a close? These are questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for centuries, and chances are you've pondered them too occasionally.

Death special: How does it feel to die? - being-human - 13 October 2007 - New Scientist

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Charges have been dropped against a Texas woman who was accused of giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him, the prosecutor in the case said on Wednesday.
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Charges dismissed in sherry enema death - Yahoo! News

SCHENECTADY -- In what one officer called one of the most despicable acts he can recall, a Saratoga County woman is accused of prostituting herself and then snorting cocaine from the stomach of her newborn son while breast-feeding him.

Wow...

I wonder if the baby was sucking the cocaine out of her? When your mom uses you for paraphernalia before you're one year old, you know your life is probably going to be interesting.

Kids in car during sex, drug bust -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

Pensioner Cathie Jung has worn tight-fitting corsets for years to become the woman with the world's smallest waist.

The super-fit 70-year-old has a tiny waist which measures just 15in (38cm) - making her figure distinctly hourglass.

The Queen of Corsets, as she has aptly named herself, appears in the new edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

The 70-year-old with the world's smallest waist - just 15 inches | the Daily Mail

Hi everyone.

I'm a transsexual.

Have a good day.

Transplant patient Jennifer Sutton paid a visit to an exhibition in London called The Heart today, mainly to check out a particular item on display - her own heart.

Fortean Times UK

ROCHELLE, Ga. - A woman was arrested after she called police to help "get her money back" after she was unhappy with the crack cocaine she purchased.
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Juanita Marie Jones, 53, called Rochelle Police late Thursday night after she purchased what she thought was a $20 piece of crack cocaine, according to police reports.

She told officers she broke the rock into three pieces and smoked one, only to discover the drugs were "fake."

She took Officer Joel Quinn and Deputy John Shedd of the Wilcox County Sheriff's Office into her kitchen and showed them the drugs, police said.

She was promptly arrested on charges of possession of cocaine.

See, more drug dealers need to join the BBB.

Woman calls police about 'fake' cocaine - Yahoo! News

Many patients with gangrenous or non-healing wounds
have been treated successfully with
Maggot Therapy

At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California, and at the University of California in Irvine, CA, we have treated patients with pressure ulcers ("bed sores"), diabetic foot wounds, venous stasis ulcers, and post-surgical wounds, since 1989.

A few of these patients have volunteered to be photographed for educational purposes. These photographs are presented here, in hopes that people with similar needs, or with an interest in the medical uses of maggots, might have a chance to "see" how the maggots have helped these patients.

There's pictures!

Patients Treated with Maggot Therapy

In this photo released by Fuda Cancer Hospital, Chinese man Huang Chuncai is carried on a stretcher to undergo surgery to remove a 15-kilogram tumor from his face in Guangzhou, southern China, Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The patient suffered from a facial tumor with a perimeter of 97 centimeters (38.2 inches) and measuring 57 centimeters (22.4 inches) long, according to the hospital. (AP Photo/Fuda Cancer Hospital, HO)

"hmm... I dunno... Think I should go to the doctor? This pimple really hurts..."

Yahoo! News Photo

n an overwhelming majority of 17 to 4, and in defiance of a threatened veto by President Bush, the US Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to expand child healthcare using a large increase in tobacco tax. Most of the Republicans on the Committee joined the Democrats to vote in favour of the bill.

I'm glad that Bush is going to veto this piece of crap. I'm of the opinion that ideally, your tax dollars should go toward something you would want to support. Smokers don't give a shit about your fucking kids. Smokers probably don't give a shit about you either... Hell, smokers don't even care about themselves. There's probably more people who smoke who are struggling financially than there are financially secure. Taxing these people because you can't afford to care for something of yours which could have been prevented with a condom is just victimizing poor people with an addiction. Using the tax dollars in helping them quit, or in their own healthcare makes sense... other than that it's bullshit.

A better idea would be to legalize marijuana. Pot smokers would be more than happy to pay for your fucking kids in exchange for legalization.

Senate Panel Approves Huge Tobacco Tax To Fund Child Healthcare