Adopt a ketogenic diet and you'll have a chance of survival man!
check out the research on this diet (by starving the cancer cells, without eating sugar)
What Dreams May Come
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
What Capitalism? America is the largest welfare state in history. Total government expenditures are nearly the size of China's GDP. What we have is corporatism, plunder by a combination of bureaucrats + government protected corporations (see: Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Exxon, Pfizer, etc). I wish we had Capitalism. All we have is an extraordinarily misdirected, poorly run welfare state.
You can't separate the state out like that and pretend it's not a player. Capitalism is what gives rise to corporatism. Oh, and welfare state is not a bad word. Some of the most prosperous and equitable countries in the world are welfare states[0]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
> Capitalism is what gives rise to corporatism.
Corporatism is a legal construction of the state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#Formation
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure what the US reality on that is. In Portugal, you can and do inherit debt, though the monetary value of the inherited debt can never exceed that of the inherited assets.
In the US, debt is generally tied to an entity called your estate (your financial entity post death, basically). Debt - for example let's say you have a big credit card debt - will be paid by the assets of your estate. Different types of debt often have different priorities (when it comes time for the executor or court to decide what gets paid first or last). As your estate is settled, the debts usually get taken car…
Just to be clear, this system is essentially identical to "debt is inherited, but never in an amount greater than the value of the inherited assets".
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#124This comment page makes me rage.
About a third blame the guy, as if buying a house at the age of 32 is crazy.
About a third just use his tragedy as a soapbox to knee-jerk blame the American health care system, as if people dying of cancer in other countries don't face a loss of income.
The remaining third give me some hope for humanity.
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#125Kind of bizarre seeing someone else's value system which is completely alien to my own. If I was leaving my wife and kids with mortgage and car loan debt, I wouldn't spend $10-20k on a graveyard plot, that's for sure. I don't think I would in any case, I'd just get cremated or whatever the cheapest option is.
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#126My father died at 38, from a cancer, and I just had some severely atypical skin removed. This story hits very close to home for me. My deepest sympathies go to everyone involved.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can choose to refuse an inheritance...accept [...] and get everything, including the debts...refuse [...] and get nothing, not even small trinkets why couldn't you (as the inheritee?) "throw away" all assets prior to dying, then let your benifactors refuse the debts (which is all that's left)? Who actually enforces that you can't dispose of your assets (in a way that benefits your son/daughter/spouse), then ref…
I believe there's a limit to how much you can give away to your heirs while still alive. Probably if you give more, you have to pay extra tax. And I can imagine that if you gave away a lot just before your death and ended up with a lot of debt, debt collectors may still be able to get the gifts back, but I'm not entirely sure about that; I'm no expert on this.
It seems like in the USA, gifts to a spouse are exempted from the gift tax[1]. I don't know about USA, but here (Finland) any unusually large gifts given just prior to death are considered a part of inheritance.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States#N...
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. A day doesn't go by without a story like this. We just don't hear about most of them. Someday a person like this will simply go to his doctor, get a prescription, and go on to live a normal life. Rather than dwelling on sadness, maybe we should ask if there isn't something we can do, as a group, to make that day arrive sooner. What would it take to cure, or at least trea…
Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much? Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I've been alive. Doesn't that scare the shit out of anyone else? Imagine what would happen if you suddenly cured all forms of cancer. People would live even longer. Population would shoot up. Lack of housing, lack of jobs. More pensioners... e…
Upvoted. I think these are interesting questions considering the bigger picture.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much? Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I've been alive. Doesn't that scare the shit out of anyone else? Imagine what would happen if you suddenly cured all forms of cancer. People would live even longer. Population would shoot up. Lack of housing, lack of jobs. More pensioners... e…
Overpopulation being the downfall of civilization is a complete myth. Even in developing countries such as Bangladesh the average family now as 2 children due to education and great progress in women's rights. I don't have the figures off the top of my head, but population peak will be more than manageable. The problem will providing energy when everyone on the planet wants a washing machine.
https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...
World population. Up and to the right.
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#130OP here: His donation page is at: https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/w704/beating-cancer-o... which can handle the load much better Should have thought to put that up earlier
They are awake in Texas. We've been noticed :-)
https://d4l3.com/blogs/darthclue/entries/treasure-good-days
"At around 5AM, I awoke to the sound of Michelle crying while staring at her phone and mumbling incoherently. She eventually calmed down enough to tell me that she was being spammed with Give Forward donation notifications. It took me a bit to figure out that somehow, my 'Bucket List' had been posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/, aka hackernews, and was the number 1 result"