• What’s the truth about Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘terminal illness’?

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  • A push to legalize life-ending medication for terminally ill New Yorkers

    Assemblymember Amy Paulin has sponsored the legislation since 2015. For nine years, supporters of the Medical Aid in Dying Act have held out hope it will pass the state Legislature. [ more › ]

  • Video of widow who married terminally ill fiancé in hospital hours before he died

    In the video, Rosie Dack, 25, explains how they planned the wedding in just two hours - after her fiancé told her on a whim his last wish was to marry her. Ryan Dack, also 25, had gone into hospital suffering with pneumonia, and after a few days in critical care she was warned that he only had a week to live. The couple got married at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on June 25, 2023. They shared their wedding night on the ward - with Rosie sleeping in a campbed next to her husband. But...

  • Video of widow who married terminally ill fiancé in hospital hours before he died

    In the video, Rosie Dack, 25, explains how they planned the wedding in just two hours - after her fiancé told her on a whim his last wish was to marry her. Ryan Dack, also 25, had gone into hospital suffering with pneumonia, and after a few days in critical care she was warned that he only had a week to live. The couple got married at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on June 25, 2023. They shared their wedding night on the ward - with Rosie sleeping in a campbed next to her husband. But...

  • Video of widow who married terminally ill fiancé in hospital hours before he died

    In the video, Rosie Dack, 25, explains how they planned the wedding in just two hours - after her fiancé told her on a whim his last wish was to marry her. Ryan Dack, also 25, had gone into hospital suffering with pneumonia, and after a few days in critical care she was warned that he only had a week to live. The couple got married at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on June 25, 2023. They shared their wedding night on the ward - with Rosie sleeping in a campbed next to her husband. But...

  • Terminally-ill son of San Jose family that created Halloween home display dies

    A sad update to a story we have followed in San Jose for several years. Christopher Jimenez, the son of the parents who put up a haunted Halloween pumpkin patch display, has died.

  • Terminally ill Leeds woman whose cancer was missed twice calls for scan assessment change

    Anne Shaw, 68, was left “devastated” by her diagnosis and said her “whole life has completely changed”. She is now petitioning for the introduction of Anne’s Rule, which is calling for two radiologists, one of whom specialises in cancer, to check all scan results in instances that clinicians suspect the disease is present. At the moment, it is only mammograms – X-rays of the breast used to diagnose breast cancer – that are reviewed by two radiologists as standard practice. Mrs Shaw had...

  • British plumber’s invoice goes viral after he fixes boiler of terminally-ill 91-year-old

    “No charge for this lady under any circumstances. We will be available 24 hour to help her and keep her as comfortable as possible."

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    • WNYC

    Call to Mind: Incarcerated with Mental Illness

    Nearly half of incarcerated Americans have a history of mental illness – that's twice the prevalence of mental illness in the adult population of the United States. People with serious mental illnesses encounter law enforcement and the court system for many reasons. This program brings together stories of people who have lived with mental illness while incarcerated, mental health providers calling for increased mental health care in prisons and jails, and legal experts pioneering new systems.

    • CHCH

    Second Boeing whistleblower dies after illness

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A second whistleblower to raise concerns about the safety of Boeing’s aircrafts has died. Joshua Dean – a former quality auditor for Spirit Aero-Systems – died Tuesday at the age of 45. Before his death, he was one of the initial whistleblowers who alleged that Spirit’s leadership failed to acknowledge the deficiencies in Boeing’s 737 […]

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    Free Comic Friday: Terminator #1

    Set 39 years in the future, humans continue to struggle under the extermination directive of the Machine.