medicine

TRX
November 18, 2012
55:
Oddly enough, a good friend of mine was in that situation. He was just about dead when they found a match for a long transplant. He made it almost seven years on a 3-to-5 year average. Quality of life sucked; anti-rejection drugs just delay the inevitable with lung tissue.

Bruce decided he didn't have time to suffer fools at all, much less gladly. He spent most of the rest of his life learning thermodynamics and Motorola assembly language on his own, applying what he'd learned to his absurdly fast turbocharged Buick.

He'd figured he'd go downhill until he couldn't care for himself, be admitted to a nursing home, and die slowly. Instead, one morning he laid down on his couch for a nap and didn't wake up. There are worse ways to shuffle off this mortal coil.

TRX
November 19, 2012
68:
@58:
I don't know about you, but like many Americans I don't know my neighbors.
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And why should I care who my neighbors are, when personal mobility and high speed communications mean I'm not limited to a set of people defined by close physical proximity?

Not to mention, most of them seem to be transient anyway.

TRX
November 21, 2012
117:
> efficiency

Jorj X. McKie and the Bureau of Sabotage have a fix for that...