I don’t know if you’ve heard about a former Hamburg senator, Roger Kusch who advised a 79 years old lady into committing suicide.

The former senator is a prominent right to die campaigner who advised Bettina Schardt about how to prepare a lethal cocktail of sedatives and malaria drugs, things that would lead to her death.

Roger Kusch taped about 9 hours of the conversations with the healthy 79 years old pensioner. The thing that made Bettina think about death was the fact that she was horrified by the thought of being put into an elderly facility. She has never been married and has no children.

“I can’t say that I am suffering.” said Bettina

As you all know German people are very sensitive about Nazis and the horrible things that happened in the concentration camps so the euthanasia issue is also a very sensitive subject for most of the German people.

According to the German laws it is illegal to help a person commit suicide but Kusch cannot be charged with helping Bettina to die because he did not administrate the lethal drugs. He just advised her. In some German states some senators actually want this suicide right to be legalized. The first country which legalized the euthanasia issue is Netherlands (2002). It is also legal in Luxembourg and Belgium to commit suicide if you’re suffering from a terminal disease.

This is the hilarious part: the senator himself released some video extracts of his conversations with Bettina during a news conference on Monday.

The German Health Minister, Ulla Schmidt responded to this suicide assistance:

“What Mr. Kusch did was macabre propaganda which has nothing to do with politics”

And this is not the first time Roger Kusch talked publicly about suicide. Earlier this year the Hamburg senator came up with the idea of building a “suicide machine” useful for patients who want to inject themselves with a lethal cocktail of drugs.

I can’t help from wondering: if you’ve got cancer, you’ve got only 1 month to live, you’re in dreadful pain and you decide to take the lethal cocktail drugs is the Church going to bury you? I know some religions have some strict rules about killing yourself and priests refuse to bury a person who’s committed suicide.

Is really God’s will for you to suffer until the last moment?

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Remember Thomas Beatie? The first (ex-woman) man pregnant? Well, he gave birth to a healthy baby girl!

Thomas, 34, has only one regret: he cannot breastfeed his baby. But that’s not really a problem, many young mothers can’t breastfeed their new born babies because they have no milk. (no matter the size of the breasts, this is a gland issue).

The weird thing is that Thomas had the baby in a natural birth! This means he has no penis and that leads to the conclusion that Thomas Beatie is not actually a man or the first man giving birth to a baby but a bearded woman who gave birth to a baby girl.
The couple are not going to stop to just one baby. They plan to have more children. Good luck to them in finding a sperm donor.

The famous Bozo the Clown played by Larry Harmon died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

“I felt if I could plant my size 83AAA shoes on this planet, (people) would never be able to forget those footprints”, said Larry.

And you shall not be forgotten!

May God rest his soul in peace!

Elisabeth Taylor is one of my favorite actresses. She was born in Hampstead, London, England on February 27 (like my best friend) 1932 and that makes her 76 in 2008. She had won 2 Academy Awards for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)

Her first appearance in a movie was in Lassie Come Home (1943), at age nine.

Love Life

Elisabeth is also known for her many marriages. Her first marriage was at age 18 with Conrad Nicky Hilton, grandfather of Paris Hilton. The marriage lasted only a year.

Then she married again but with Michael Wilding. This time the marriage lasted for 5 years.

Soon after divorcing Michael she married another one named Michael Todd. This marriage lasted a year. Amazing!

After a year of bachelor Elisabeth married Eddie Fisher who was her husband for 5 long years. In 1963 she met Richard Burton, her partner in Cleopatra to whom she cheated on Eddie. She was even accused by a Vatican newspaper of having descended into “erotic vagrancy. The two divorced and soon after Elisabeth married Richard. He was Liz’s hubby for 10 long years. In 1974 the two got divorced so they would marry again in 1975, a marriage that lasted only a year. No doubt they loved each other but could not stay married.

Then Liz met John Warner to whom she was married for 6 years. Her last marriage was with Larry Fortensky, from 1991 to 1996.

Nowadays Elisabeth Taylor may have lost her looks but she’s still one classy woman. Unfortunately, she’s got diabetes and that’s really a torture.  Perhaps her lifestyle got to her eventually

Quotations

“Big girls need big diamonds.” speaking about her passion for jewlery

“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.”

“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.” - she got that right

“I don’t think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I’m not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.” - speaking about politics and health care

“I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.” - well, she obviously was busy with Richard Burton

Photos

Photo from BigPicturesPhoto.com and the Daily Mail

My God! This video made my day!
“My website was on top of the penis …” Haha, it’s too good!

This is the song of the day! I don’t know why but this morning, after reading an article about Ruslana’s death I felt the need of listening to this song. It’s such a shame that a young, gorgeous lady committed suicide.
This is Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Kylie Minogue, a song from the Murder Ballads album released in 1996.
I love Nick Cave’s music! Enjoy

Ruslana Korshunova was a 20 year old successful model. This weekend she died, after falling from the ninth floor of her apartment in Manhattan. The Kazakhstan model appeared to live a happy life, nobody knew she was having a hard time. She was working with passion, took care of her relatives and send money back home and she even said that life people in New York make her feel comfortable.

The gorgeous young model with green eyes and long blond hair was famous in the model industry and the day she died she had just returned from a modelling gig in Paris. She arrived in her apartment building around 4 am on Saturday. Nobody seemed to notice that Ruslana was not happy in love. She wrote a few poems about love and hurt but nobody knew she was really hurt or sad.

“There were no signs. […]That’s what’s driving me crazy. I don’t see one reason why she would do that” […] “She really liked New York. People made her feel comfortable here”, said a friend of Ruslana

Another friend, Kira Titeneva is having a hard time in beliving that Ruslana did commit suicide.

“There’s no way she would have killed herself. ‘She loved life so much. She was my best friend. I talked to her Friday night and we were talking all the gossip. She was like an angel. She was just working, working, working”

According to a police report there were no signs of struggle inside of her apartment concluding that Ruslana’s death was a suicide.

May God rest her in peace!

Florina, the 11 years old girl who got pregnant after her 19 years old uncle raped her is going to England. Her mother confirmed the fact that they already have the flight tickets.

Meanwhile, the Romanian comission concluded that Florina can have an abortion in Romania IF she can find a doctor who will go through with the procedure.

In case anything wrong happens during the abortion/mini c-section the doctor is not going to be defended by the whole medical staff, in other words : do it on your own risk stupid, we won’t guarantee for you!

Florina’s parents are decided to travel to England and try to put and end to this unhappy event.

Unfortunately, as far as the Romanian media tells, the British Law says that the girl who got pregnant must be older than 12 years old, which in Florina’s case is a problem. Unless she can find a doctor who will terminate the pregnancy, she’s stuck with an unwanted child on her back and a huge trauma.

Her name is Florina and she just turned 11. She’s was a happy girl right before her 19 years old uncle raped her.

She was afraid to tell anyone about what happened with her but soon she started to feel sick: morning sicks, headaches, she fainted a few times and accused some abdominal pains.

Her parents got worried and took her to the doctor. The medical staff as well as her parents were shocked when the analysis revealed that the 11 years old girl is pregnant.

Only after the pregnancy was revealed the girl told her parents about her mother’s 19 years old brother who took advantage of her.

The boy ran away from home when he heard about the consequences of his “pleasure time”. Florina’s pregnancy is now in the second trimester, she’s pregnant in 21 weeks.

The Romanian media wrote for days about this unhappy situation. Everyone judged the parents for not taking the girl sooner to the doctor, for not taking her to a clinic for an abortion. Florina’s mother said she’s afraid of what would happen to her brother if he gets caught. The media made a big case out of this.

The doctors in Bucharest and Iasi decided to spare the child from an unwanted baby and opted for an abortion but after a week they changed their minds because of legal issues. According to the current abortion Romanian law you’re forbidden to have an abortion if you’re more than 14 weeks old of pregnancy.

Because Florina’s parents and herself do not want to have the baby they decided to go to England for an abortion.

A Romanian woman, Roxana talked to some doctors from the “Marie Stopers” hospital where the abortion will be taking place. The procedure costs about 1.600 pounds.

“I’ve already spoken to her parents and told them what to do. A good friend of mine from America offered to buy the plane tickets. I decided to get involved in this case because all I see is an 11 years old child obliged to have a baby by some stupid rules.” said Roxana

The parents are angry with the Romanian authorities because of the stupid laws regarding abortion.

“We know what we’ve been through for the past month and a half. I don’t want to offend anyone but we’re sick and tired of wandering from one hospital to another. We thought the doctors from Piatra Neamt and Iasi wanted to help us, that they really wanted to do this abortion but the law forbids this because the pregnancy is too far along. What are we supposed to do now? We’re going to England. It will be God’s will from now on. We only care for our daughter’s sake!, said Florin, the girl’s father.

Florina, the pregnant 11 years old girl doesn’t really know what is wrong with her.

“I know we have to go to England, to do some analysis. I’m not afraid, I’ve been through enough hospitals. I don’t know what it means to give birth. All I know is that Adrian (the uncle accused of rape) did something bad to me and I had to go to hospital and visit doctors”, told the girl

Unfortunately, Florina is not the only under 15 years old girl who’s going to have an abortion. Last year only in Romania a number of 535 girls under 15 had an abortion. It’s such a shame that the educational system is not working and that there are no special sexual education courses to teach young ladies how to protect themselves from an unwanted pregnancy.

The abortion issue is now being discussed by the media and the Parliament. Some people hope that the current abortion law is going to be changed because it’s wrong to let a girl have her uncle’s baby who raped her.

For the making of this video Matt Harding needed 14 months and visited 42 countries.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.