Olivia Newton-John 
Anne Heche, who starred in the 1998 Psycho remake, Six Days Seven Nights, Donnie Basco and other movies. She had also been the former partner of Ellen DeGeneres for four years.
She was involved in a sequence of two car crashes on August 5th, first hitting a garage in an apartment complex, then hitting a home, which started a fire and destroyed the home. She was severely burned and suffered a severe brain injury and pulmonary injury. She had narcotics in her system, but it will take about another week for the analysis to determine which ones, including if they were illegal or maybe something that was prescribed. One of the people who last saw her alive said he saw no signs of impairment like slurred speech.
She went into a coma and was kept on life support because she was an organ donor. In California, when youâre declared âbrain deadâ, it is considered being legally dead. Yesterday, the hospital announced they found recipients for her organs and the donation procedure began. She had been âpeacefully taken off life supportâ earlier that day, but it was announced in the evening.
The crash was going to be investigated as a felony. I donât know if that would still proceed. Maybe for insurance claim purposes?
She was 53.
22 a day, and apparently Veterans Affairs in Canada thinks thatâs not enough. I donât know where to put this, but I also didnât want to start a new thread.
Profanity, yelling, and a really damn sad story.
And thatâs the major issue I have with euthanasia.
I think in some circumstances it can be a good thing. If people are terminally ill, and in a lot of pain, letting them die with a bit of dignity is a kindness.
This is not.
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If I read the numbers right Euthanasia is the 6th cause of death in Canada. I support dying with dignity, but one of the issues here is that the same entity is in charge of paying for care, providing care, and making the rules for eliminating expensive patients.
I wouldnât want Cigna to decide when itâs ok to pull the plug on me, especially if Cigna is also the one making the guidelines on when it can. Though frankly I would prefer the plug not be plugged in.
I am hoping things like the hearing loss guy in the article are extreme mistakes, but if he is the far edge case then there must be hundreds of questionable ones.
My beloved father, who passed away at 96 last night. He passed peacefully at home, listening to opera as I held his hand.
Iâm okay. It wasnât unexpected, per se, although I didnât expect to happen quite as quickly as it did. He had a good life, and I have a lot of wonderful mwmories to carry me through.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Yeah, Gorbachev, the man who presided over the end of the cold war. By the same paper that mourned Castro and multiple terrorist leaders.
Getting real tired of reading flattering obituaries of people who would have loved to see the US obliterated, or at the very least enslaved. (Havenât read the whole thing, pay wall, but Iâve seen multiple quotes.)
Why am I thinking of Tim Cavenaughâs âABCâs of Dead Russian Leaders?â
Beat me to it.
Me too. She ruled for so long
Hey, itâs only proper that one of her subjects should be the one to post it. 
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Itâs not a surprise, given that she was 96 years old and in failing health.
But itâs also a huge shock because she just seemed like she would live forever.
Iâm neither a royalist nor a republican (not the US Republican) and I have no strong feelings about the monarchy, but I can say I have always had a lot of respect for the Queen and what she did.
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Is it possible to do anything peacefully at Balmoral? They have bagpipes.
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Lots of sourpusses in the world who celebrate the Queenâs passingâŚ
Iâve never understood that. Okay, some people donât support the monarchy, thatâs fine and understandable.
But taking pleasure in someoneâs death is just evil.
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Lot of that going on in politics in general. Itâs a safe method of expression for some people, now that they are gone they can talk shit and not have people call them out for not doing anything about it.
It is sad how many anti-monarchists are getting arrested. But, as China has demonstrated by arresting teachers for saying Hong Kong isnât part of China by using Holocaust denier laws, any restriction on speech is a restriction on all speech. And the Commonwealth as a whole doesnât have free speech so much as protected speech.
I think itâs a bit disingenuous equating the chinese arresting teachers with people getting arrested for disturbing a funeral. Theyâre not being arrested for being an anti-monarchist, they are being arrested for disturbing the peace - and thatâs fair enough given what they are doing.
Their right to free speech doesnât trump everybody elseâs right to peace.
Some of them have been arrested hundreds of miles from London. Its not illegal here, and protesting funerals has become somewhat of a horrific art form.
Some of them have been arrested hundreds of miles from London. Its not illegal here, and protesting funerals has become somewhat of a horrific art form. A barrister had a long conversation with a police officer because he held a blank piece of paper up. The police officer stated that if he wrote âNot My Kingâ on it he would be arrested, part of that conversation is on tape. The law applies because someone might be offended and cause a disturbance of the peace, therefor meaning that the person holding the sign is disturbing the peace?
OK, digging more, all but one where at events around the funeral. One at a formal announcement, though apparently his âShoutâ was only heard by a few people. In 2011 20 people were preemptively arrested or searched because they maybe planned something and in 2002 it was 40 people who were protesting at the Golden Jubilee and later arrested at a pub.