I can't find whether certain applications, or other paperwork has to be carried out prior to destroying a nest in a chimney, but it does seem a bit dodgy to me given nesting season is so short. Unless the nest dropped and your neighbours quickly had the work done to prevent the adults from coming to harm looking for their young.
I have one box of red threads and can always find a match for a red fabric.
I have 12 boxes of green threads and nearly always have to go buy a new thread to match a green fabric.
Bathroom tiles last longer than curtains, blinds, towels, etc. You can either use them as a colour accent, or a colour theme.
If they are the colour theme, you don't want a colour that's impossible to match up with blinds, towels and other accessories. Greens and blues can be very difficult to match up, even though these colours are commonly used for bathrooms.
If I picked a green, or blue tile, I'd have the rest of the bathroom the colour of the tile background with just one, or two other small blue, or green items.
The purple daisies at the bottom are a surprisingly neutral colour. You could blend more things in with that as towels, etc. wear out before the tiles, or just if you fancied a change.
We can't really compare the covid19 pandemic with lots of fuss and without any fuss because we only did one of them.
We might be able to compare countries who made more, or less fuss, or written accounts of previous pandemics, but each country's, or time's infrastructure and dynamic is likely to create it's own variables.
If we had made no fuss, it could have been overwhelming in all sorts of ways. We can't know about that with any certainty, but I think the death toll was pretty low in comparison to other, historical pandemics and that would have had it's own knock on effects.
It's very difficult to read Rob's comment and not question whether it implies that some children deserve to die in agony over days, or that some parents deserve to watch it. I don't know if his comment meant that, or whether I'm looking from a perspective that's ignorant of Buddhism.
As yet, there have been no other religious perspectives, which is interesting in itself. It's a difficult subject to reckon with.
I'm pretty sure that even if my mum had been fit and healthy, the amount of medication she received in a hospice as part of her palliative care would have killed her at some point.
I've just had a wee google and 'palliative care' can mean different things according to country, or organisation. It may, or may not include the location where care is given, treatment and medication relief, just medication relief, social/psychological/practical support. etc.
I'm still wondering whether in the UK we effectively and covertly offer the kind of euthanasia that the Netherlands has openly legislated for, i.e. we give as much medication as is necessary to bring relief even if that may contribute to death.
Or, are there some cases where no amount of medication brings relief and administering more will definitely cause death within a very short time frame of minutes, or seconds?
My mum, despite being unconscious still showed signs of some pain at times. She'd frown periodically in her unconscious state and I eventually worked out it occurred at the same time as a faint noise from her bed. It turned out that the mattress was designed to inflate and deflate to minimise bed sores and discomfort. I had already requested that the nurses stop turning my mum as it caused her horrible pain; I argued that given she had days/hours to live, bed sores were somewhat irrelevant. I had to override the NHS tick box protocol (designed to ensure patient care) for that to happen and likewise, I was offered the choice to turn off the mattress if I thought it was in my mum's best interest.
What I wasn't offered at that point was more medication for my mum. That hadn't occurred to me until now.
That comes across as rather harsh to me, especially when we're talking about the end of life suffering of a child where palliative care brings no relief.
How is our own karma affected according to how compassionately (or otherwise) we care for others in this life?
As an aside, if you have the time and inclination Rob, I have another blog I'd value your learned opinion on. It's the one about jury selection in capital cases.
I think the salient point of Suzie's comment was destiny versus medical interference, not the broken leg which by her own admission wasn't a perfect example.
If we say it's a person's destiny to die naturally and without the option of euthanasia, then does that mean we should leave an elderly person to die on the floor if they've had a fall and can't help themselves?
I'm not sure it quite works as a spectrum of intervention because taking someone's life via euthanasia is not the same as intervening to save someone's life.
Perhaps we can play around with this idea and see where it leads.
I thought donor organs had to be appropriately sized. A new-born's lungs wouldn't be big enough for your rich client, therefore I doubt the veracity of your story.
I didn't say that it shortened life, but that it may.
For example, someone is in the days/hours of their life and is in pain. They may reach the maximum amount of morphine normally considered safe for pain relief, but they are still in pain.
When someone has days/hours to live, there's no point in fretting about whether it's safe to give someone more pain relief, but there is much to gain from helping someone to be comfortable.
There is no proof that more pain relief means that person dies sooner because we can't compare it with withholding pain relief from that same person at the same time. We do, however, know that if we jabbed someone in the street with that much morphine, they might not survive the experience.
I struggle with the concept of palliative care not bringing relief. I'm not sure if that means that some children aren't responding to pain relief, or whether it means they've reached the safe limit which isn't working.
Perhaps in the Netherlands they are now transparently doing what doctors in the UK covertly do, and that is give pain relief exceeding normal dosage in the final days/hours/moments of someone's life.
I'm sorry to hear of your losses and the circumstances.
No, you've got the wrong end of the stick there, Ken.
If you read the article I cited it explains that it's there to cover those children between the ages of one and twelve for whom palliative care brings no relief. An example in another article (which I can't find now) was a child with a brain tumour who screamed in pain for the last three days of their life.
48 hours before my mum passed, she was in so much pain I would have euthanised her myself if need be. Palliative care brought relief, however, and in retrospect although she appeared unconscious there were indicators that she was very much in control of her own passing. I'm glad I didn't/couldn't take that control away from her, but the very short time that she was in extreme pain before new/extra meds kicked in felt like an eternity.
When we make life and death decisions for our loved ones it's burden we don't want and neither of us can imagine that rare burden where palliative brings no relief for a child. Why would this be a slippery slope towards euthanising children with crooked teeth?
This is the definition of the word 'supernatural':
AI and Cern are not beyond scientific understanding, or the laws of nature. They may be beyond social understanding, or they may have negative traits, but they are not supernatural manifestations, or events.
When we change the definition of a word to suit our own understanding of the world and then attribute that to someone else's meaning, we are failing to communicate effectively with someone else.
Although it's very common to do this and people get awfully annoyed with me for trying to pin down meaning, in order to really listen to someone else we must hear what they mean, not just hear ourselves and our interpretation.
I think we do subconsciously pass discrimination on to our kids, it just gets slightly watered down, more hidden, or more inventive with each generation. It's something that we ought to consider, rather than pretend discrimination, whether racial or another kind, will go away if we ignore it.
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I can't find whether certain applications, or other paperwork has to be carried out prior to destroying a nest in a chimney, but it does seem a bit dodgy to me given nesting season is so short. Unless the nest dropped and your neighbours quickly had the work done to prevent the adults from coming to harm looking for their young.
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