posted on July 25, 2001 06:46:32 PMWill you be paying in eggs or pelts?
My Grandmother told me (years ago) that when my dad was born, they gave the Doctor 2 chickens, a pig, and some produce for delivering him. This was in 1933 so I tend to believe the story... But to her her tell it, the Doctor was happy to get it.
posted on July 25, 2001 09:53:54 PM
Bunnicula....badda bing, badda bang!!
This is all your fault and I am sooo glad~~
A man brought his very limp dog into a veterinary clinic. As he put the dog on the table, the doctor pulled out his stethoscope, and placed the receptor on the dog's chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, "I'm sorry, but your dog has passed away."
"What?" screamed the man. "How can you tell? You haven't done any testing on him or anything. I want another opinion!"
With that, the vet turned and left the room. In a few moments, he returned with a Labrador Retriever. The Retriever went right to work, checking the poor dead dog out thoroughly.
After a considerable amount of sniffing, the Retriever sadly shook his head and barked.
The veterinarian then took the Labrador out and returned in a few moments with a cat, who also checked out the poor dog on the table.
As had his predecessors, the cat sadly shook his head and said, "Meow." He then jumped off the table and ran out of the room.
The veterinarian handed the man a bill for $600. The dog's owner went ballistic. "$600! Just to tell me my dog is dead? This is outrageous!"
The vet shook his head sadly and explained.
"If you had taken my word for it, would have been $50, but with the Lab work and the cat scan..."
posted on July 26, 2001 12:14:33 PM
Kervorkian never did a single thing his patients didn't ask him to do. It is beyond cruel how terminally ill patients are forced against their wills to linger on in incredible pain & with no quality of life when *they* desire to end their own suffering. Or, for that matter, to force families to keep a loved one technically "alive" when they have been reduced to vegetables, watching day after day, month after month & many times year after year as the family member's body contracts into a fetal position & evenutally dies on its own from pneumonia.
We need to face the fact that there is a point when, although medical science can keep a body breathing, we should allow someone to face death gracefully & on their own terms.
edited to delete an extraneous "s"
[ edited by bunnicula on Jul 26, 2001 12:25 PM ]
posted on July 26, 2001 12:30:04 PMBunnicula thank you for ridding your post of that extraneous "S" the world certainly doesn't need any more of those!
That was quite a serious post for the HAHAHA venue...
VicotriaLOL thanks for the funny additions!! Love the cards "Just say NO!"
You mean it isn't that way at all HMOs?
