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I've said it before but I am so glad I am not a teenager these days.
It was bad enough in the late 80s early 90s but now with the internet and camera phones, ffs.
It would be a nightmare.
Another reason why I never want children.
 
Oh god,I just read about this.Its beyond comprehension.
 
I think now there is no need to more wait.Because if you hire a company that offering alarm monitoring and quick access to the mobile security staff.Than you can easily control over any uncertainty that may happen in future.
 
Than you can easily control over any uncertainty that may happen in future.


I still regardless, the future is largely uncertain.
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A WOMAN may have been dead in her apartment for more than a year before her body was found, an inquest has heard.

he body of Mary Fox (56) was discovered at her home at Cooldriona Court in Swords, north Dublin, on July 14 last year, days after a building society contacted her brother to say she was in arrears.

Brendan Dunphy told Dublin Coroner's Court that he had not seen his sister, who was an alcoholic and suffered from depression, for more than a year after she had fallen out with family and friends.

He said he believed she was in the care of mental health services at the Curam Clinic in Swords during that time.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Declan Murray said in a letter to the court that Ms Fox had been discharged from the clinic and back into the care of her GP in July 2010, having successfully completed treatment.

Ms Fox's GP, Dr Barry Moodley, wrote to the court to say that Ms Fox had last attended his clinic on April 21, 2011.

His medical card contract ended the next month, he said, and she was transferred into the care of another doctor.

Mr Dunphy first became aware that something was wrong when he was contacted by the building society over a debt he was a guarantor for.

He went to his sister's apartment, there was no answer and the chain was on the door.

Someone had also recently painted the door and it was sealed shut, he said.

He called gardai and they found Ms Fox's body.

HORRENDOUS

He said that the apartment was in a "horrendous" state and that on clearing out her post-box he took three bags of letters away, including social welfare cheques dating back a year.

Mr Dunphy said that when his sister was being treated by the Curam Clinic, he was not given any progress reports or asked about her background.

"We were given the impression they were looking after her," he said.

Mr Dunphy's wife Angela told the court the family has written to the Irish Medical Organisation regarding her sister-in-law's care.

"What I do not understand is where the back-up was from the health services.

"Where were the social workers?

"Why did they leave her in an apartment block on her own with no family and no friends," she said.

Coroner Dr Brian Farrell said that the decomposed state of the body meant that the pathologist was unable to establish a cause of death.

The inquest was adjourned until November.

Irish Independent

 

similiar sorta story happened in London, there was a documentary on it too, decent film

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U.S. healthcare is a crime: Dick Dale should be retired, not touring with cancer & renal failure|Dangerous Minds

In an interview with the Pittsburgh City Paper last week, Dick Dale made a seemingly hyperbolic statement: “I can’t stop touring because I will die.” It’s the sort of thing you hear often from an active man disregarding his suggested retirement age, but Dale followed it up with, “Physically and literally, I will die”: the 78-year-old is literally playing shows to stay alive.

Dale has extreme health problems—painfully damaged vertebrae, diabetes, renal failure, and rectal cancer that has left him with a colostomy bag. Dale has insurance, but it doesn’t cover everything, and little luxuries like changing a colostomy bag more frequently require him to work through the pain and discomfort. The hospital has advised him to stay thrifty, despite the risk of infection that has left him incredibly ill in the past:

“The hospital says change your patch once a week. No! If you don’t change that patch two times a day, the fecal matter eats through your flesh and causes the nerves to rot and they turn black, and the pain is so excruciating that you can’t let anything touch it. That has happened to me because I was following the orders of the hospital.

Once, his colostomy bag broke before a show, leaving his wife Donna (also very ill, with multiple sclerosis) to do the last-minute work of a nurse:

I had diarrhea coming all down my legs into my clothes and my pants, and my shirt. m supposed to be up on stage and I had to call [my wife] Lana and go into the bathroom. Lana washed my clothes out in the sink, I wrung them out and put them back on and did an hour-and-a-half show soaking wet, and then I signed autographs for five-and-a-half hours after.


Dale is currently on a 25-city, three-month tour across this godforsaken country, so if you’re able, check out Dick’s tour schedule and try to catch a show. Not only will you be seeing an absolutely brilliant legend, you’ll be helping a man raise the $3,000 a month he requires to stay alive and live with a reasonable amount of dignity. God bless America, land of the greatest health care on earth… if you got the money
 

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