Things that make you SAD thread.

[Trips]

Just been told that a friend of 20 years has passed away from cancer. She was in remission previously but unfortunately had returned. She's leaves behind 2 young boys, one the same age as my son. Awful

 

[sycophantia]

Just been told that a friend of 20 years has passed away from cancer. She was in remission previously but unfortunately had returned. She's leaves behind 2 young boys, one the same age as my son. Awful

Horrible and sad. A friend of mine has just started radiotherapy after previously had his prostate removed and been given the all clear.

 

[Trips]

Horrible and sad. A friend of mine has just started radiotherapy after previously had his prostate removed and been given the all clear.

Horrible disease. My Mom is currently battling it for a second time, is at the hospital today for another round of immuno-therapy.

This news has rocked me a little tbh.

 

[sycophantia]

Horrible disease. My Mom is currently battling it for a second time, is at the hospital today for another round of immuno-therapy.

This news has rocked me a little tbh.

Hope it works out for her.

 

[lemonjelly]

Horrible disease. My Mom is currently battling it for a second time, is at the hospital today for another round of immuno-therapy.

This news has rocked me a little tbh.

stay strong mate.
mrs jelly has been clear now for approaching 14 years I believe, thankfully.
a really good friend of mine from work is currently going through chemo. He's such a dedicated and lovely person, and it was a total surprise recently to learn he was having time off work. Long term good for him to be prioritising his health though.
All good wishes to your mother, and all who care for her whilst she battles her illness.

 

[Johnny75]

Horrible disease. My Mom is currently battling it for a second time, is at the hospital today for another round of immuno-therapy.

This news has rocked me a little tbh.

Hope she gets through it ok Trips.

 

[lemonjelly]

https://www.theguardian.com/society...g-diabetes-crisis-as-cases-top-5m-report-says

my dad was diagnosed in 1980 or 81. At that time, it was almost a death sentence - dad was told he'd be lucky to reach retirement age.
Thankfully, he is still with us (probably only because other health issues meant he had to give up work when he was 50 mind). The leaps medical science has taken are awesome, and have positively impacted his life. And yet, the fact this disease is becoming more prevalent is a worrying trend.

 

[BillyDee]

And yet, the fact this disease is becoming more prevalent is a worrying trend.

The fact this disease is becoming more prevalent is due mostly to leaps in medical science meaning people are less likely to die earlier from other diseases.
Cancer is somewhat of an inevitability, the older you get the more likely you are to get it, broadly speaking.
(Although it is the case that there is an increase in some behaviours linked to earlier cancer, such as obesity, sunbathing, alcohol consumption, and that is something that needs to be looked at).

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Some years ago, I was working with a guy who was in the Re Insurance business (Big stuff like massive pollution in the Bay of Mexico
Landslides, volcanoes wiping towns out, Oil tankers etc) and he said that in about 98% of male deaths there is cancer present in the body.
Obviously in greater or most commonly in smaller parts, but it's there.
Happy thought.

 

[Johnny75]

Some years ago, I was working with a guy who was in the Re Insurance business (Big stuff like massive pollution in the Bay of Mexico
Landslides, volcanoes wiping towns out, Oil tankers etc) and he said that in about 98% of male deaths there is cancer present in the body.
Obviously in greater or most commonly in smaller parts, but it's there.
Happy thought.

How would he know?

 

[Loki]

It used to be advertised 1 in 3 of us would get it. Now it`s 1 in 2.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

How would he know?

Because they have teams of researchers looking at practically every risk option they can find. You can't have these poor Insurance companies underestimating actual risk factors. They have tables for EVERYTHING associated with cancer. Types of people, ages of people, employment histories of people, (Ah, I see you were working in a wood curing factory in 1963, and one of the principle products used in that process has been carcinagenous to 94% of employees employed there for more than 3 years continuously....), autopsy reports etc. That sort of shit.

 

[Johnny75]

Because they have teams of researchers looking at practically every risk option they can find. You can't have these poor Insurance companies underestimating actual risk factors. They have tables for EVERYTHING associated with cancer. Types of people, ages of people, employment histories of people, (Ah, I see you were working in a wood curing factory in 1963, and one of the principle products used in that process has been carcinagenous to 94% of employees employed there for more than 3 years continuously....), autopsy reports etc. That sort of shit.

Bollocks.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Bollocks.

This guy works in the re-insurance industry. They cover or provide insurance cover for the 'ordinary' insurance companies when they are faced with huge claims.
When Louisiana, Texas and Mexico puts in a claim for a massive oil spill and subsequent destruction in the Gulf of Mexico, it's not Standard Life who are gonna foot the bill.
You can argue all you fucking want.

 

[Johnny75]

This guy works in the re-insurance industry. They cover or provide insurance cover for the 'ordinary' insurance companies when they are faced with huge claims.
When Louisiana, Texas and Mexico puts in a claim for a massive oil spill and subsequent destruction in the Gulf of Mexico, it's not Standard Life who are gonna foot the bill.
You can argue all you fucking want.

Have a look at what you've written.

It's bullshit.

Now you can double down on your bullshit or just admit you're making this nonsense up.

It's pretty easily debunked too. Not withstanding the COVID pandemic where people have died because of something else, those bodies would not have had autopsies.

You then have people who have died in accidents, those who have cardiac issues, those with low life expectancy. Those who died of natural causes.

Then you'd have the fact that not every body has an autopsy so how would you know if they had cancerous cells in their body.

98% is a huge number and just not credible.

 

[AndyWolves]

I asked ChatGPT and it reckons a study of autopsy's showed 20-25% of autopsy's showed previously undetected cancer.

Re-insurance is definitely a thing though

 

[Paul]

My Mom passed away last night, my nephew then reminded me that I am now the oldest member of our families bloodline, scary

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Very sorry to hear that Paul. Always around if you need to chat.

 

[Lupo]

Sorry to hear that Paul

 

[lemonjelly]

Sorry to hear that Paul. Hope you & the family are supporting each other & treasuring memories.