Well ..........as you all know by now !!!!!! .....or not ...... i hate the ..... whole death thing .......... and things regarding death............ like funerals........ and all the stupid shit........ that goes with death like coffins ...... flowers ........and all the rigmarole ...... involved in a funeral......... which we all know is a fucking scam ....... but hey there are no end to people....... want to get buried under the ground .....good luck chuck!!!!! .......i mean....... a coffin...... a really expensive...... empty wooden box of epic proportions ...... flowers ......... fucking stupid ....... dead people ....... cannot appreicate flowers its really fucking mental ........ as i see it ........ but hey........ what the fuck do i know ........i am a vanilla gorilla........ looking for a pole dance ... ...free that is ... ....coglan's law....... in the movie cocktail say's ......"bury the dead "they stink up the place" .......so anyways........ here is bari's pick pf the week......... life and death ...... enjoy or not ........ does anyone enjoy death.......... only a fucking undertaker as far as i know !!!!!!! .........au revoir les enfants ..........
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| By Bari Weiss |
Hi folks—we’ll get to three must-read stories in a moment, but first, an exciting announcement about next week.
To mark the end of summer, we’re launching Journeys, a new series about the trips (literal and figurative) that change us. It’s our firm belief that everyone, for at least a few days each year, needs to switch off and hit the road. So for the last week of August, you’ll get an essay in your inbox each morning from some of our deepest thinkers—including Paul Kingsnorth and Agnes Callard—who’ll tell stories of life-changing journeys, by rail, by car, and by motorcycle. Then, to cap off the week, Abigail Shrier will share one of the most powerful personal stories I’ve ever read.
We can’t wait to share these essays with you. I hope they help you slow down and reflect before the busiest month of the year begins.
Okay, let’s get to this week’s stories.
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The Doctors Redefining Death
Death and taxes, so the saying goes, are the only two certainties in life. “For millennia,” medical ethicist L.S. Dugdale writes, death “was fairly straightforward.” But now, a group of doctors is turning that certainty on its head.
Amid shortages of organ donations, a group of physicians is seeking to redefine the very definition of death to include the “hopelessly comatose” in order to relieve demand for healthy human organs.
Dugdale writes, “If we expand the definition of death to include patients who are alive—unconscious, yes, but definitely showing brain activity—we might end up killing people who could regain consciousness,” such as a Kentucky man who awoke just before the planned retrieval of his organs.
The implications of this are profound, and Dugdale explains the issue better than anyone I’ve read. Read her here:
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They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.
No Free Press story has generated more discussion this week—much of it from people who failed to read it—than this one.
There is real hunger in Gaza, as we have reported on in these pages. There is also a concerted campaign to make that hunger appear like widespread starvation—starvation that is being induced by Israel.
In an investigative report, Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova found that at least a dozen viral images of hunger in Gaza—photos that have appeared across social media, in the reports of leading international aid organizations, and in CNN, The New York Times, and NPR—lack essential context. The subjects of those photos all have significant preexisting health problems, including devastating diseases like cerebral palsy.
“The inference is that Israel is behind this, and if they just agree to a ceasefire, all of this will stop now,” said one military expert. “And that is the farthest thing from the truth.”
A critically important piece of reporting. Don’t miss it:
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