tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post7429405567230732770..comments2024-03-26T10:02:32.848-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Posted In AdvanceRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-18652606802676511752016-06-03T11:46:27.694-04:002016-06-03T11:46:27.694-04:00Wait for the next day? That is hope, but it may ne...Wait for the next day? That is hope, but it may never come. And the guy they experimented on wasn't old. And 1 guy in an experiment means probably DECADES before it is available to the rest of us. <br /><br />(Insurance doesn't pay for experiments, and they rarely want to pay for stuff that is early days even after the experiment.) <br /><br />Some things are just not worth living through. (And what I think might be worth enduring is different from what you think...) More life is not automatically equal to better life. "The frightening thing is not dying. The frightening thing is not living."<br /><br />Something I haven't thought of in a very long time - since I studied nuclear reactions at a government lab - was revisited by the media during Obama's recent Hiroshima visit. Namely, what are the effects on the human body from extreme radiation exposure. (The kind of exposure the people who survived the explosion only to die a few days later.) You can probably find some of the descriptions if you bother to look. <br /><br />Here is a hint: If I ever discover that I have been exposed to extreme levels of radiation - like a dose well in excess of 1000 REMs, I will do everything in my power to shoot myself in the head before I let the medical profession get their hands on me. <br /><br />Bodies putrefy BEFORE they die. Think about that for a minute. Your tong will become a piece of rotting meat. And you will still be around to endure that. And at that level there is NO hope. <br /><br />Regardless of what your parents told you when you were 6 years old, there isn't always hope. The doctors can't always make things better. And in the meantime you're in the hands of a bunch of people who are overworked and underpaid.<br /><br />Roberta, Sorry for co-opting the comments, but the insistence that I live by someone else's world-view (and it is usually a religious world-view) is one of the things that sets me off. Whether it be the Christians or the Muslims, or the Socialists/Communists, they all want to tell me how to live and what to think, and some of them are bent on destroying me if I disagree. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-12644678026901184712016-06-03T00:29:25.060-04:002016-06-03T00:29:25.060-04:00If there's a cure the next day?If there's a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/health/paralysis-limb-reanimation-brain-chip.html?ref=health&_r=0" rel="nofollow">cure the next day</a>?Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-79956505237063246392016-06-01T14:56:46.050-04:002016-06-01T14:56:46.050-04:00"Imagine how bad the really bad ones must be....<br />"Imagine how bad the really bad ones must be."<br /><br />Yup, the only real reason to save for retirement.<br /><br />Don't bother with the fancies for your 'Final Exit', a cylinder of Helium with a hose and a plastic bag will do the trick quickly.<br /><br />And I hope you allow fellow RF Geeks to paw through your accumulated junk box at your Wake. Be a real shame to have those goodies piled up at the curb for the junkman...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-59086264948919510122016-06-01T07:28:56.090-04:002016-06-01T07:28:56.090-04:00Yep, we are finding the same with MC's dad.
...Yep, we are finding the same with MC's dad. <br /><br />And I have been thinking of the same things as you re: my elderlynessB https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.com