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[blackbear] 17/10/2007 08:24

Take a lesson in sarcasm, i think Goodfella quit ADVFN soon after.

[general johnson] 17/7/2007 20:25

Most folk have no dignity in life so why give it to them in death. I'm actually thinking about those on the PET thread.

[grupo guitarlumber] 17/7/2007 20:16

Germany to launch Death Channel

A round-the-clock television channel devoted exclusively to ageing, dying and death is to be launched in Germany.

Eos TV will feature documentaries about graveyards, televised obituaries, tips on finding a decent retirement home and even how to install in-house stair lifts.

Wolf Tilmann Schneider, 51, a former TV producer, has joined forces with Germany's funeral association to launch the 24-hour, seven days a week channel on cable television and the internet.

He said: "More than 800,000 people died in Germany last year. Multiply that by four and you have a rough estimate of the number of relatives affected.

"They will be our target audience. We are convinced that Eos TV will attract viewers."

The channel aims to capitalise on the changing demographics in a country that has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

Last year there were almost 150,000 more deaths than births, and an estimated 2.1 million elderly people were receiving professional care.

Viewers who tune into Eos TV can expect to be entertained by documentaries highlighting the beauty and tranquillity of graveyards both in Germany and abroad.

"It may come as a surprise, but older people really enjoy visiting cemeteries - not just to mourn, but for their peace and quiet," Mr Schneider said.

[thinkbig?] 13/10/2006 16:26

Started this thread to warn people buy nobody listened shame as ypou all would have saved a fortune

[thinkbig?] 13/10/2006 16:24

Plenty of margin calls being called in now, as plenty of people are sitting on big losses in the oil and gaming sector, has already started but will pick up,pace next week, my broker told me people are sitting on big losses and are being forced to sell other stock now to cover their their margind and CFD's.

You will see plenty of stocks falling from next week, still shorting thses two sectors at the moment

[hamidahamida] 26/9/2006 17:30

well how much have you made thinkBIG the sector is well down since you put the thread out looks in side job u know a lot

[maywillow] 18/12/2005 09:05

Swiss hospital to allow suicide
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Switzerland



Assisted suicide is not illegal in Switzerland
A hospital in Switzerland says it will allow assisted suicide on its premises for terminally ill patients.
A spokesman for the university hospital in Lausanne said the decision was taken after a long reflection.

He added that the conditions for permitting an assisted suicide remained very strict.

The practice is legal in Switzerland, but only for patients who are mentally competent and suffering from an incurable disease.


From the start of next year terminally ill patients in Lausanne's main hospital will be allowed to take their own lives on hospital premises, as long as they are of sound mind, are already too ill to return home, and have expressed a persistent wish to die.

Until now, hospitals across Switzerland had refused to allow assisted suicide on site and had denied access to the Swiss voluntary euthanasia society, Exit.

This meant that patients wishing to die by assisted suicide had to leave hospital to do so.

The new ruling will give patients access to an external doctor or to a member of Exit.

Hospital staff can choose whether or not they wish to attend the death.

Senior doctors at Lausanne's hospital say the decision was taken after almost three years of consideration and reflects the position of the Swiss Medical Association and the National Committee on Ethics.

Both bodies say that in order to respect the wishes and independence of patients assisted suicide should be permitted in exceptional cases, but that it should never become a routine procedure.

[grupo guitarlumber] 11/12/2005 18:29

Mayor wants to ban death

The mayor of a Brazilian town is trying to bring in a law making it illegal for residents to die.

Mayor Roberto Pereira da Silva, of Biritiba-Mirim, came up with the idea because the town's only cemetery is full.

He wants to bring in a law that would see relatives of people who die before their time face fines or even jail.

The law would make it an offence for the town's 28,000 citizens to not look after their health properly.

Mayor Pereira da Silva said there was no way of expending the cemetery or building a new one, reports Agora Sao Paulo.

He said: "Eighty nine per cent of the town is rivers, the rest is protected because it is tropical jungle."

The state government had promised to help build a new vertical cemetery - but nothing had been done.

Gym memberships have reportedly shot up since the mayor announced his plans, and more people are visiting doctors.

[ariane] 17/11/2005 05:57

Undertaker gears up for pandemic
By Susie Mesure
Published: 17 November 2005
Dignity, the undertaker, is preparing to work round-the-clock to churn out enough coffins to meet the potential spike in demand if avian flu hits these shores in earnest.

The funeral company, quoted on the Alternative Investment Market, reckons it can handle twice as many deaths if it adopts emergency measures such as cutting the length of its average cremation service by one third and extending the opening hours of its crematoria.

Co-operative Funeral Care, which buries more bodies in the country than any other undertaker, revealed yesterday it was working closely with the National Association of Funeral Directors about how best to handle a pandemic. "We are working on contingency plans," a spokesman said without elaborating.

Peter Hindley, Dignity's chief executive, was happier to give details: "We are making preparations in our coffin factory to introduce double shifts. We will work throughout the night to make sure we have enough coffins available."

However, the deceased will have to settle for a standard coffin rather than a choice of final resting places as Mr Hindley would reconfigure the factory to make just one type of coffin.

Drawing on evidence from the flu pandemic that hit the US at the start of the last century, Mr Hindley said: "It's at the crematoria where we come up with a capacity problem." He said Dignity would extend the opening hours of its 22 crematoria and cut the service from 45 to 30 minutes.

[ignoble] 01/8/2005 11:47

It was indeed a good call !

[pvb] 01/8/2005 11:27

"goodfella - 01 Apr'03 - 08:02


All of my charts and Fundamental analysis suggest the bear market has ended with the Invasion of Iraq and once we depose Saddam everything will be OK.

The previous problems of corporate excess, dubious accounting and ridiculously high PE ratios were just a bad dream and the real cause of this was Iraq.

Fill your boots IMHO

DYOR."

Well he wasn't wrong was he?

[maywillow] 14/4/2005 09:34

France adopts 'end of life' law

The rules on assisting someone to die should change, says the poll
The French senate has approved a law granting terminally ill patients the right to end their life.
The bill allows doctors to stop giving medical assistance when it "has no effect other than maintaining life artificially".

It had already been approved by the lower house of parliament.

Supporters of the legislation say it stops short of permitting euthanasia, because it does not allow the doctor actively to end a patient's life.

They include the conservative government, the opposition Socialists and the Roman Catholic Church.

Sympathy for euthanasia

The new law opens the way for families to request the withdrawal of life support for unconscious patients.

And it allows the administration of pain-killers to patients who have chosen to end their treatment, even if these drugs might hasten death.

Some left-wing senators had wanted the bill to allow "active assistance" to those wishing to die.

But Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy was quoted by AFP news agency as saying: "As long as I am health minister, I will reject euthanasia."

Euthanasia was brought to the forefront of French national attention in 2003 with the case of Marie Humbert who had campaigned in vain for her crippled son's right to die.

She attempted to kill him with an injection of barbiturates, which sent him into a coma.

Doctor Frederic Chaussoy switched off his life support and he died shortly afterwards.

Mr Chaussoy was then charged with "poisoning with intent to kill".

Following the incident, opinion polls suggested 80% support for a change in the laws regulating euthanasia in France.

[fearandgreed] 01/4/2003 09:15

Anyone know what the date is today??!

[hedge66] 01/4/2003 08:50

Yeh and pigs might fly :-)