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Person Invites People To Share The Saddest Facts They Know And Boy, Do They Deliver (40 Pics)
As much as we’d like to be cozy, comfortable, and content all the time, that’s really not how the world works. Life is full of sadness—it’s an inseparable part of the human condition and we need to learn to embrace the less-than-savory parts of life alongside the pleasant ones. You can’t have happiness without sadness and each gives the other meaning.
Redditor Graham_craker invited their fellow internet users to share some of the saddest facts that they know in a viral thread. And, we’ve got to say, these hit hard. Really, really hard. For instance, the recording of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird singing its mating call and not getting a response because it was the last of its kind, hit me in the feels so hard, I just want to curl under a warm blanket and eat ice cream all week long.
You might end up feeling blue just like us and Eeyore the Donkey. Remember to upvote the facts that made you appreciate life and how fragile it is even more as you scroll down. Just remember to grab a pack of tissues because you might end up tearing up. (PS—here’s a wholesome post to pick up your mood afterward.)
Of course, constantly living just with negative emotions and nothing else isn’t good for your mental health. Bored Panda spoke about depression, how to recognize it, and how it doesn’t always look like sadness with Emma Morton from the University of British Columbia. You’ll find her insights below, so be sure to read on, dear Pandas.
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#1
There's a recording of the last Kaua'i Oo bird singing before it went extinct. It was a mating call sung by a male bird. The song has breaks for the female bird to respond. There's no response because the male Kaua'i Oo is the last of its kind.
aceflux weeb 4 years ago
If this is the first one then I’m not ready for the rest of this article
Nadia Montera 4 years ago (edited)
This made me cry. Here is a link to the video on youtube even more heartbreaking, it has such a gentle and melodious song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45csJ9IO0v4
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Its 11 in the morning isnt it a little too early for these darn onion ninjas
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#2
On 9/11 the search and rescue dogs were getting so sad from finding so many dead bodies that the search and rescue helpers hid themselves in rubble to make the dogs happy.
Bonus fact: dogs stay up thinking about their problems just like humans do.
Dave P 4 years ago
the dogs got happy thinking they found live people. Dogs are very emotional, and many of the 9/11 dogs needed canine therapy as well. Such good dogs that day.
Anne Reid 4 years ago
Hiding & being “found” helped us first responders, too.
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Phoebe Carter 4 years ago
They actually got sad because they were trained to find live people, and so they thought they were doing a bad job because they were only finding dead people
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Even the dogs found the incident tragic! Also good on their handlers for trying to up their mood.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
i don't know for sure, but i'm pretty sure my dog gets nightmares sometimes. he cries and growls in his sleep occasionally.
Janine B. 4 years ago
Of course they do. I think every being capable of dreaming can have nightmares.
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Louise B 4 years ago
Too right! Dogs are so pure and loving, we really don't deserve them xxx
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witchling 4 years ago
My mother was there for recovery. She and her friend were so exhausted they couldn't think of the phrase 'cadaver dogs' and one accidentally said 'Godiva dogs'. Theres a click of people who were volunteering at ground zero that day who still to this call all service dogs Godiva dogs. Shame they can't have chocolate because if they deserve Godiva. At a minimum!
Pittsburgh rare 4 years ago
This is sad but also wholesome of their handlers. The older l get, the more I love dogs.
#3
Laika, the first dog to be sent out to space, died alone up there. She had no idea what was happening and I still find it extremly cruel that she got sent to space "for science". Poor Laika :/
Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is a extremely sad story. Same for all of the animals sent to space. They didnt know what was going on, they didnt agreed to that and were sent to die. It was inhumane.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Most of the Soviet space dogs did return in good health. It is also important to understand the context of the times. In Laika's case, they didn't understand enough about what would be required to sustain life in an orbital-duration flight. The chief scientist for the project stated that the more time passed, the more sorry they were for what they had done.
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nunya bussiness 4 years ago
yeah...this is very sad...imagine if YOU were shoved into a rocket against your will and you just start going up and up and up and you were alone up their and stressed out
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I too think it's cruel. I also think it's cruel to use dogs in the military.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Oh, yea, unimaginable cruelty done to animals in the name of "science". Despicable cruelties. Everything what people do, can do humanely!!!
Barbara Baldwin 4 years ago
Think of the animals sent to slaughter. They can smell what's going on..
Morton from the University of British Columbia explained to Bored Panda that depression doesn’t always look like sadness, even though some people assume that it does.
“While teariness and low mood may be a warning sign of depression, people may seem more tired or mentally ‘scattered’ than usual, lose interest in their usual hobbies or activities, become withdrawn, or change their sleep and eating patterns,” the researcher went into detail about how we act when we’re depressed.
#4
The money in off shore bank accounts 5 years ago could end world poverty for 50 years. Forbes once had the headline: Poverty is a choice, just not by the ones in poverty.
Radek Suski 4 years ago (edited)
Bezos could solve climate change 3 times with his money. Vatican could probably feed every single starving person for hundreds of years. The humankind is damned to extinct
François Carré 4 years ago (edited)
That's not sad, that's just infuriating, even when you've been aware of this for years. Sadness applies to things that are due to fatality. This is not a fatality at all, it's about political matters and just needs to be adressed as such - with rebellion.
Juan Alcorta 4 years ago
No government, no matter the ideology, is really interested in finishing tax havens.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago (edited)
So true. So revealing of corrupt, selfish greedy human character, and I'm not talking only about rich and powerful. I believe, that from selfishness all evil is born.
Ben Smith 4 years ago
It wouldn't though. Corruption would use up that money before it helped the majority of those in need. And there's no magic button to spend $xxx and just make food, clean water, fair treatment etc appear. I'm not saying we shouldn't TRY, but the idea that a few billionaires are keeping much of the world in poverty isn't remotely true
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
Oh my bad. I forgot you can eat money. You can drink it too. Smh. You truly don't realize that money has no value. It's the resources that have value and what we need to stay alive. Money could disappear right now and we could all still go on living with the natural resources we have on Earth to sustain us. What we need is here already. Literally everything we have created in this world has come from a resource that is already on this planet. The fact that you somehow think I'm lying is scary. Frightening actually. Everything I'm saying is true and you know it. You just don't want to admit you've been fooled and made to believe that money is of greater importance. It isn't.
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Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
That's not how money works. Money doesn't create or produce food, supplies, education, clean water or anything else needed to end poverty. Add money where supplies don't already exist, and you simply cause inflation. If you want to end poverty, quit trying to come up with schemes to take other people's money and invent ways of creating and distributing food to poor people. And for God's sake, stop "Quantitative Easing," the means by which wealthy Americans stole trillions of dollars from the developing world by printing money to inflate the value of American investment assets.
2WheelTravlr 4 years ago
I was going to say the same thing, but you said it better. An excellent example that increasing someone's bank account doesn't actually help is shown in studies which follow low-income winners of lotteries or large inheritances. At least 50% and up to 70% of these individuals file for bankruptcy within 7 years of the windfall.
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#5
Elephants will mourn other elephants in their group dying and will hold funerals for them and will even recognize the bones of said elephant and cry out in sadness.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I remember hearing about an elephant that befriended a dog and when the dog passed away the elephant mourned its death.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
If you don't know of this already, look up how the Elephants reacted to the death of Lawrence Anthony (known as the Elephant whisperer, he was able to rehabilitate traumatised elephants and also worked as a conservationist) After his death, a herd of Elephants travelled for 12 hours to reach his home to mourn him. (how they even knew he had died is incredible o.O) and they returned the next year to mourn him once more, like a ritual. (I can't remember if it is said that they do this every year now, but it is possible) It's an incredible and beautiful thing imo.
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The important thing is not that it be a sad fact, but that it shows how clever and self-aware elephants are, which is a good reason among others not to consider ourselves superior to them anyhow, and to leave them in peace.
Charné Coetzer 4 years ago (edited)
Read up about Lawrence Anthony. The Elephants he worked with marched for 12 hours to his house and mourned him silently for 2 days after he had died. They did the same 1 year after his passing. They are beautiful animals!
Claire 4 years ago
Researchers once played a recording of a dead elephant (to see what would happen, I guess?), and the herd that knew that elephant went wild and searched for her. The elephant's daughter called out for her mother for days afterward and the researchers felt so bad that they never did anything like it again. (Source: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/)
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
Hippos do the same , it’s thought they even have their own funeral for said hippo that passed away
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
I don't know about you but i want to be reincarnated as a perpetual baby elephant. Just clowning around all day long, falling into mud, flapping my big awesome ears and hanging onto my momma's tail.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
..... till your momma is killed by poachers for cruel, Asian customs and ridiculous medical claims.
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I remember a dog mourning another dog's death by sleeping in the exact same spot he died
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
At David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage they said the new orphans often have nightmares when they arrive and the other orphans help to comfort them. That was in a sponsor email that arrived at work, and left me blubbing at my desk.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Please help us to fight for animals. Support reputable non-profit animal protection and/or environmental organization(s).
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#6
Dodo birds were really friendly because they had no natural predators and we killed them all.
denzoren 4 years ago
Human: Oh look it's a completely harmless and quite friendly bird, isn't that lovely? Also Human: KILL THEM ALL! Humans can be so cruel.
Miguel justino C 4 years ago
Depends on the geographic location of said human. China, let’s kill tigers for gal bladders and eat rhinoceros horn for erections. At least America is trying concerning their biological resources
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Nope. Dodo birds got extinct because rats ate their eggs. Humans did accidentally bring the rats into their habitat, but they didn't actually go out to hunt them to extinction.
JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Humans killed off the species, even if they didn't kill actual birds
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Keyy 4 years ago
you people do know that millions of species went extinct before we even came around right
Morton warned that those of our friends and family members who are constantly talking about death, expressing hopelessness about the future, or increasingly use alcohol or other substances may be “particularly at risk of suicide.”
However, it’s not always easy to recognize depression, as some people can pretend that everything is all right, even though they’re not doing well at all. According to the professor, perfectionists are especially prone to doing this.
#7
Cats are the most euthanized pets in shelters even over pitbulls.
I worked at an animal shelter when I was a you g lad and every f**king time someone came to adopt a pet it was a dog! I even heard a family say “ we want a dog only cats don’t love you”
I socialized many of their cats and most of them were so sweet, and cuddly and made me just so sad inside everyday watching people adopt dogs and ignore the cats. This was a no kill shelter but still it was so heart wrenching I quit because of that.
Cats do love you back you just have to earn their trust and they show it differently than dogs. All animals show love in their own special way.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
The biggest issue with cats is they can breed more often than dogs and people just don't want to get their cat desexed. The number of cats needing homes is far greater than dogs needing homes.
DC 4 years ago
That, and the stupid idea that every female pet should "experience motherhood at least once" - why? Why would they wanna get fat, and end up having a bunch of newborns to care for, when they could just perfectly remain lazy af and continue doing nothing, nothing, and later on not doing any else? Never got that. My cat already had had a uterectomy before she moved in, but hadn't she had one then, she'd had one by now for sure!
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denzoren 4 years ago
"Can't don't love you" is utter crap. Cats are some of the most loyal and loving pets. They just don't have the patience to acquire the trust of a cat. Also, cats reproduce really quickly...so please..for all that is holy...spay and neuter your pets!
Bumble 4 years ago
I know right? Mine is so freakin loving, he could be classed as a stalker! Seriously- I cant shower, go to the toilet or sleep without him getting in my business! Always trying to nuzzle into my face! I love him to death but am seriously considering a restraining order!
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Emiliano C 4 years ago
I work for an animal shelter and one of the reasons for this is that people bring in community cats. Community cats are cats that live outdoors successfully, have caretaker, and are part of TNR / SNR programs. These cats don’t want to be house cats, and when the come to shelters they take resources from cats who do not successfully survive outside (like lost house cats), and they are rarely adopted because they are hissy and scared. A big part of what my shelter does is to educate people - if you see a cat outside, as long they are not sick, hurt, or in immediate danger LEAVE THEM ALONE.
Kaseylulu 4 years ago
I have only had dogs as pets growing up and as an adult but when our last dog passed last year we ended up getting two cats at the request of my daughter. We fully expected to get another dog but it has been a year and frankly I don't know if we will be getting another dog anytime soon because the cats are such wonderful and low maintenance pets. They don't require walks, they don't need training, I don't have to take them outside to go to the bathroom-and they are so sweet and affectionate!
Hutt'nKloas 4 years ago
@ Kaseylulu: True, they dont need training. However training time/play time is an essential part for bonding with your cat. They will definitely become more happy pets if you do so.
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Call Me Mars 4 years ago
I volunteer at an animal shelter and socialize with both cats and dogs. There was a new mama with kittens who would only nurse if she was laying on my sweatshirt and me and my friend was with her. She and her kittens got adopted. Miss you Coffee.
Masen Silas 4 years ago
And this is how I wound up with 18, almost all were shelter rescue a couple were outdoors rescues
Bumble 4 years ago
I mean, I adore cats but let's not romanticise them. If we stop rubbing under their chin, they are euthanising us for sure!
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Hisseefit 4 years ago
I volunteer for a no kill shelter. It is amazing how people view cats as more disposable than dogs. I have had numerous people bring in their cats because of convenience and it was a fun distraction. People adopt a cat and return 6 months later because they are moving, broke up with boyfriend, going to school, had little kids and cat scratched toddler because toddler was rough. Yes, even cat does not match my furniture. We do a background check but we still end up with many idiots.
Hutt'nKloas 4 years ago
@ Hisseefit: Sad but true. The amount of cats in shelters or left behind without care, speak for themselves.
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Freddie The Sort Of OK 4 years ago
As a statement from my Youtube bachelor degree, the idea that cats don't love hoomans mainly stems from those hoomans who play unfunny, cruel pranks which rightly and quickly makes kitty lose their trust for a deservedly long time.
#8
Read about a dolphin who had learned some basic communication and was in some sort of pen. Dolphins can suicide by going under water and refusing to go back up for air. This dolphin was miserable and told it's handler goodbye before going under and killing itself. The fact the dolphin was sentient enough to chose suicide breaks my heart.
RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago
Karen, the name of the dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide- refusing to take a breath. After the show wrapped she was sent to an isolation pen in Miami.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Ric O’Barry has been an advocate for free dolphins. Dolphin project is worth supporting
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François Carré 4 years ago
No sea mammal is made to live in captivity. No matter how much marinelands and other aquatic zoos pretend to care about the animals they detain - it's always wrong and always ends badly.
Dhukath 4 years ago
The same occurred with a Dolphin called Peter, he was part of a NASA inter species communication study, read more about it on Wikipedia :Margaret Howe Lovatt, at the end of the study he was sent away and one day decided not to breath, sank to the pool bottom and committed suicide due to kiss and depression!
Rick 4 years ago
You missed out the part about Margaret masturbating Peter during their training sessions...
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Michelle M 4 years ago
There was an Orca who committed Suicide by repeatedly banging it's head on metal rails or something. It lived in a pool of water only thrice as big as it was
Susan Green 4 years ago
This is making me cry. These beautiful mammals should never be kept in captivity.
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
Well, I am not reading any further. These stories are just pathetic.
Michelle Boden 4 years ago
I could kill myself reading all these sad stories. I can't bear animal suffering. Can't bear it.
#9
There has been a day when you and your childhood friend got out to play for the last time and none of you two was aware of it.
Birgit M 4 years ago
This one makes me cry because my very best friend from childhood is now a homeless alcoholic. I tried to help him but it didn‘t work and now I don‘t even know where he is.
If I could I would live under water 4 years ago
This reminds me, your parents also picked you up one last time, put you down and never picked you back up again
Gary 4 years ago
I've told my kids if they ever want me to pick them up again I will. They are still my babies, even now that they are at University.
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Grace Barclay 4 years ago
I am so thankful that I still have my best friend around, even if she is living in BC, Canada. We talk often (every two weeks). I visited for 5 weeks in December '19 - January '20. We thought we lost her 12 years ago when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she made it. Friends for 50 years. The kind of friends who just pick up again. I love you my friend.
Lola 4 years ago
Sadly, my friend and I were very aware of the last time we played together. That was the day she moved away and we both knew it was for good. It was one of the saddest days of my life.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
I've haven't thought about this before. Now I'm sad.
Monday 4 years ago
Then that day is still coming. One day your outing together will be your last, and unless it's a move across the world or a terminal diagnosis you won't know when it's here.
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“People with perfectionism may invest a lot of energy in keeping up appearances, so this is not always easy for friends and family to detect. If someone you know experiences a lot of pressure or stress in their work, family life, or relationships, it’s important to listen for the signs of toxic perfectionistic thinking, and to show you care and express your concerns,” the researcher said.
#10
The United States government:
Fed radioactive oatmeal to mentally challenged children to see what would happen.
Allow black men with syphilis to believe they were being treated while actually letting them die from it to see what happened when it was left untreated.
Plus:
There are people that do not vaccinate their children because of internet memes.
There are people that truly believe the world is flat.
Niffler_13 4 years ago
Lots of governments have done horrible things to their people over the years, not just the US. Look at all the Kids the UK shipped off to basically be slave labor.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Don't forget they allowed morons to choose not to wear a mask in the middle of a pandemic 🤦🏼♀️
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
United States of America, we take a dump on every international treaty
Radek Suski 4 years ago
There is a considerable amount of people in the USA who thinks chocolate milk come from brown cows
#11
On december 5 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, after the round-call of the morning, which was atrocious since you would need to stand still for hours until the count matches, the SS took the entirety of the women camp moved them in front of a ditch within the camp and asked the 6000 present alive women to get naked.
Then, the SS armed with whips, pistols and canes got over the ditch, made two parallels lines to create some sort of corridor. Then they screamed the women prisonners to jump over the ditch and run through the corridor of SS soldiers.
During the run, the SS with the whips and cane struck/whipped/pulled away all the women they deemed "unfit for labor" due to sickness and physicall exhaustion. Out of the 6000 women that day, around 1500 made it to the end of the corridor without being pulled away : They were the lucky ones and the camp commandant made a speech sort of like "You were chosen to live".
The 4500 women pulled away by the SS or who couldn't jump far enough to pass the ditch were pushed into trucks and send to the gas chamber. They apparently screamed like banshees full knowing they were sent to their death.
Very few women survived from 1942 to 1945 in auschwitz, but the detail of this day is present in the few books/testimonies from survivors because of how horrible it was.
Queen Mab 4 years ago
Read this Marjorie Taylor Green - this is what losing your freedom is really like.
Suzanne McHenry 4 years ago (edited)
Well said! That stupid woman needs locking up.
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We should never forget this. We should tell this story again and again and remember it in order for it never to happen again
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
A time many people wish they could forget. EDIT: I never said it should be forgotten, just that many wish they could.
Louise B 4 years ago
I'm done with this post, the dogs got to me, but this is too much. I used to work in a hospital in north Manchester with a large Jewish population. When I saw my first camp tattoo I cried afterwards. It was on the loveliest elderly lady, sadly she had dementia. Her husband never left her side. It was a privilege to meet that couple.
deanna woods 4 years ago
To influencers: STOP USING PLACES WHERE TRAGEDY OCCURRED FOR YOUR STUPID SELFIES.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I always found horrifying the brothels in the nazi camps. Many women captured in camps were used as sex slaves. Not only by the nazis (which is terrible but to be expected) but also for inmates of the camps. Imagine being a camp prisoner and suffering like they did and having so little empathy that you are happy to rape your female coprisoners. Imo the prisoners who used the brothels deserve the same fate as the nazis.
Dave P 4 years ago
They never had brothels for prisoners, only for the Nazi guards
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Patti Renwick Parrish 4 years ago
And to think some 'people' still refuse to believe the Holocaust was real.
#12
One of my neighbors has a nine year old daughter who has a very rare genetic condition. She's not expected to live much beyond her mid - late teens. The girl doesn't know and believes she's a perfectly normal child. It's heartbreaking to hear her saying that she wants to be a hairdresser when she grows up. She ain't never gonna grow up
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Yeah, I'm not sure what I'd do in their place. I have trouble even imagining it. I don't want to be in their shoes. Poor parents ... and poor child :( So heartbreaking. They'll eventually have to tell her
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
To everyone saying child needs to know. Keep in mind we are talking about a 9 y.o., not an adult. Why would you worry a 9 y.o. with the knowledge of her early death? Let her live her life as worry free as she can. When she finds out later it can be dealt then. Until then at least she can enjoy her time without fear of death.
Michael Sanders 4 years ago
Yes this. It is terribly sad for the other people that know, but keep that kid happy as long as humanly possible I say.
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KatHat 4 years ago
Something doesn't add up here. The parent(s) want to protect the child and haven't told her about her condition - but tell random neighbors? Seems like a recipe for disaster.
Michael Sanders 4 years ago
May not be real, but I think it is presumptuous to say “random neighbors”
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Jude Ponting 4 years ago
I'm not sure I fully agree with that decision with a child thats that age, It's different if you are the one that's terminally ill and wish to keep it to yourself, but making that decision for someone else? The child will find out at some point, and I wouldn't have a clue how you would then handle that conversation
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
As a child who had something kept from them: it could be in the hopes of the placebo effect, or avoiding the reverse placebo effect? I had an operation at six, didn't know much about why it was just to help my back. Recovered facedown for a month, then right way up. One night my mum had fallen asleep next to my bed, it was late and if I buzzed a nurse to help me pee, it would wake up my mum. So I hauled myself out of bed and staggered to the loo, then back. When I cam out mum was there, panicking (she thought they'd taken me for surgery without telling her). I thought she was crying with happiness coz I went toilet by myself. Turns out it was because there was a good chance I would never walk again, the surgery was a long shot but my only hope. Had I known that, I don't know what frame of mind idve been in. I didn't need to have hope, because I didn't have fear, if that makes sense. I know it's not the same thing as what this girl has, but I think not knowing what might happen helped
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
It's nice that she's enjoying a normal childhood and isn't having to deal with a constant deadline looming over her. My mother was terminally ill, she lived 3 years from diagnosis, and had a very normal life for the majority of that time. If we'd known at the start that she was only expected to live for 6 months, there's a whole lot of plans that we made and enjoyed that might not have ever happened.
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
I think in this situation you can only make the wrong decision. Not telling her is bad, but confronting a child with death is also terrible. If I were her mother, I would try to give her everything she wants. She must have places she wants to go or things she wants to experience. Maybe she can take a hairdressing course in her young teens and then cut her mum's hair.
Laurel Sneed 4 years ago
At 17, i was told i had no more than 2 years to live and I turned 35 about 4 weeks ago
However, not everyone will be up to sharing what’s going on in their inner world of emotions straight away, so it’s important to be patient and polite but persistent. “People might not open up the first time you ask, so continuing to check in regularly and establishing yourself as a safe person to talk to is important. These can be challenging and stressful conversations to have, so it’s important for loved ones to get support in asking these questions and look after their own mental health.”
#13
Hachikou was a Japanese Akita dog who each day would wait at the train station for his owner to return from his commute. One day his owner had an aneurysm at work and passed away. Hachikou would spend the next ten years waiting at the station.
We don’t deserve dogs, they are too good.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
I watched the hachikou movie in class, literally everybody was crying, all the girls were in groups sobbing and the boys were like "cAn i gO tO tHe bAtHrOoM rEaL qUiCk i hAvE sOmEtHiNg iN mY eYe"
blugeagua 4 years ago
Boys should never be afraid to show their emotions in public
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Maren Gärtner 4 years ago
I watched the movie once and I will never watch it again because I cried for hours and hours. And now I see the picture and I wanna cry again
Vicky Z 4 years ago
I think it's the only movie that i liked but never want to watch ever again.... it made me so sad!!😥😥
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𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
My sister watched a show about this and I didn't believe her at first, dogs are truly too good for this world
•𝕪øu𝒓 g𝒓𝕖𝒂𝕋𝕖s𝕋 𝕖n𝕖𝕞𝕪• 4 years ago
And we don’t deserve cats or any animals we love ❤️ for example my cat is very locale and she waits for me when I’m in the bathroom so I can give her food but I still love her for being there! PS I HATE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE THINK CATS ARE MEAN BECAUSE THEY ARE CUTE AND LOVING CREATURES THAT DESERVE LOVE TO AND THE ONLY REASON THAT THE ATTACK YOU IS BECAUSE THE FEEL THREATENED OR THEY ARE SCARED OR THE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, OK?!
Erica Cochrane 4 years ago
they made a movie about it, sadly americanised. but i still cried. i loved that the locals (according to the film anyway) made sure he was fed and taken to the vets and things, since they all loved him.
#14
For animal testing involving dogs, most laboratories use beagles as they are the most forgiving of the people inflicting pain on them.
nunya bussiness 4 years ago
everyone says hippos are the most dangerous animals on earth but i think humans are.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
No animal is more dangerous than humans, and no animal is plundering and destroying our planet.
Load More Replies... Ozacoter 4 years ago
Animal testing involving procedures that give pain to animals should be completely illegal. But soecially for big animals. Rodents can be housed in okaish conditions in a lab but bigger animals cant.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is also proven that the big ammounts of stress and poor welfare/socialization of the animals affect the results greatly. There isnt a real point to use animals in testing. We need to use human tissues or human volunteers (for the least damaging products).
Load More Replies... Casey Burns 4 years ago
And that's why hell is so big. So animal testers can find their forever home.
Amanda Reicha 4 years ago
Actually, it's because beagles have the least amount of medical issues over other dog breeds
Evelyn Haskins 4 years ago
They DO have problems with "reverse sneezing'. And snore like freight trains.
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Madam Butterfly 4 years ago
Me too!! Reading these posts have given me a migraine. :(
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
I wanna know how the hell someone can go to work every day and purposefully harm a dog. Any animal, but a dog in particular. You are a lowest-level piece of garbage and I hope you die slow and alone.
#15
There is a genetic disorder that makes it impossible for some people to sleep. So far only 20 people are known to have it, and none have lived past 30...
Bill 4 years ago
Familial fatal insomnia. National Geographic did a documentary on a guy suffering
Miss Frankfurter 4 years ago
I saw that. He was a professor, and he died.
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Doob 4 years ago
How do they live to 30??? WITH NO SLEEP!?!?!?!? STRONG PEOPLE I WOULD SAY!!! tho it sad
CharChar Binx 4 years ago
Its onset is later in life. So they can sleep until the disease begins to affect them
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Vicky Zar 4 years ago
I've recently read that you cannot survive without sleep for very long. It was like a week or so.
4 years ago
1946) is an American from San Diego, California, who set the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep. In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.
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Philippa Davies 4 years ago
This would be truly awful. Sleep deprivation is incredibly uncomfortable.
Mica Powell 4 years ago
I'm curious, if someone had this disorder wouldn't sleeping tablets work on them?
Evelyn Haskins 4 years ago
As ""user"" I can assure you that using sleeping pills is better than being awake all night, but they do no give you a refreshing sleep. I also have Hashimoto's and and recently upped my thyroxin dose and now sleep much better. I suspect it is because I can get better and healthier exercise now.
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#16
Somewhere right now a child is being abused or fearing it happening again. Child abuse is the saddest f**king thing to me
Joanne O'Brien 4 years ago
As a survivor it ruins your life and I will never forgive my birth parents for damaging me so much.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
I’m 65 and still waiting for my evil stepfather to die. DIE ALREADY, CREEP!!!
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
It's perfectly fine...cuss all you fuckinng want. Sorry for all the abused (in any way, any part of their lives) here. Also experienced.
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Terd Fergison 4 years ago
F-u-c-k the catholic church and anyone who supports that organization of abusers!
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
My family used to do foster care and we fostered this little girl who was taken away by her family because they burned her constantly and wrapped her in plastic wrap and stuff, and once she threatened me with a knife and i swear she would've stabbed me if my mom wasn't there, my mom asked why she did that, she said "my mom did this all the time, why wouldn't I do it?" she was six. it was so sad.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
That's one of the things that scares me the most about child abuse - the fact that the kids tend to repeat the actions of the parents.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
100%. This horrific incident affects these children mentally and physically the rest of their lives. It haunts their waking minds.
Jenny Gordon 4 years ago
As a survivor of child sexual abuse, I can say that it absolutely destroys lives. The most precious thing we can have is a happy childhood and mine was horrendous. I'm now the mother of a daughter and it's also impacted on how I raised her. If anyone is caught in this cycle of abuse, please, please reach out for help. Even if it's messaging me!!!
James Carnduff 2 years ago
I Am So Sorry. I Can’t Even Imagine What You Went Through. Me And My Siblings Are A Couple Of The Lucky Kids And This Pisses Us Off. I Really Wish I Could Go Back In Time So I Could Protect You
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Jigsaw's Puzzle 4 years ago
I actually know a friend that's being abused. It's so sad cause I try to help them but they don't want to disobey their parent because their worried that they'll get hurt again.
Axolotl King 4 years ago
CPS?!?!?! If you're underage maybe tell someone at school or whatever if that's an option? They're smart to try not to get hurt tho. I hope they get help.
Load More Replies... Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago (edited)
How do I stop this I would kill myself if that were the cost I would do anything
#17
All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they essentially begin to sink and drown
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
They become a source of food for the other animals after they die.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
A whale carcass feeds all manner of deep-ocean creatures for as much as 100 years after they sink to the bottom. If you'd like to know more: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whale_fall&oldid=1017353213
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Miguel justino C 4 years ago
It’s the process of life. It sucks but it’s what we live and die with. A successful marriage ends with one partner dying while the other watches!
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago (edited)
Although it is sad, this is just the circle of life.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
What is sad and outrageous is that living sentient innocent beings are brutally tortured and murdered, die in unconscionable agony to feed their murderers. If animal is eaten after it dies naturally it's better, but again, "Mother" Nature is extremely cruel and sadistic - dying naturally does not always mean dying painlessly.
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Michael Grimes 4 years ago (edited)
I never knew that before now but I just hope it's a peaceful way to go.
#18
The first and only time most men receive flowers is at their funeral.
lara 4 years ago
Not true, they receive a boutonniere when they attend a formal affair, when they get married and other "special events" that they participate in.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
That implies that most men will attend a formal affair, or have an elaborate wedding.
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Jenna Howe 4 years ago
I was in a crowd of pretty liberated folks in our 30s give or take a decade. I brought a bouquet of roses to a guy I was involved with and he was astonished and a bit choked up. No one had ever given him a bouquet of flowers. I was really disappointed in every other woman he'd ever been involved with.
Susan Riley 4 years ago
About 30 years ago, I sent flowers to a guy I was dating. We've now been married over 30 years.
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Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
When a reporter asked George Bernard Shaw why he doesn't have a bouquet of flowers anywhere in the hose, he replied: 'Besides flowers i love children, and I don't cut off their heads to decorate my house.'
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
I probably wouldn't give my hubby flowers at his funeral either lol. He's not a flower person.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
You don't know what you'd do at a funeral; besides, it's very common to surround a lost loved one with floral arrangements during visitation and other services at funeral homes and the like and it would be strange to not arrange for at least one floral arrangement for your husband on the occasion of his passing, no matter what kind of man he was. Even my father received floral arrangements from many people, my mom (who has since passed) included, and he was a very macho man.
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#19
Swans can die of a broken heart when their mates die.
sylvanticx 4 years ago
bonobos can die of fear. a baby bonobo that is orphaned will often die of sadness, they just lose the will to live.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Technically this is all birds. It's so very sweet and so very sad at the same time.
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
Once a swan fell in love with a platic version of a lady svan and was really sad when she didn't wanted to mate with him
#20
Animals are routinely horrifically abused and neglected, and nobody cares unless they're a cat or dog.
Ozacoter 4 years ago (edited)
I wouldnt say that "nobody cares" since there is a huge ammount of people that does not eat meat for ethical reasons and many more that also advocate for good animal welfare. Also plenty of people abuse cats and dogs.
François Carré 4 years ago
Many people care indeed, but to this day the industry remains adamant in the cold, insensitive, barbarian logic that implies atrocious maltreatment of the animals in order to gain productivity. Eating less meat or not at all is one of the possible responses to this, but it is not enough. Our whole way of dominating the world and looking down on other living beings has to be questioned.
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Candace Alagappan 4 years ago
The worst thing you can do to a cow is forget to milk it. It causes them a lot of pain and it is quite harmful to them.
Ms LaDonna 4 years ago
because we bred them to make more milk than the babies can drink. humans did that.
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Laura Dawson 4 years ago
I care! I donate a lot of money to animal shelters & charities that don’t just help cats & dogs & yeah I’m saying it now but I’m anonymous online & I don’t tell anyone irl. I have been a vegetarian most of my life. I have & had rescue cats yeah but i love all animals. A lot of people care. Whoever wrote this comes across like the pick me choose me love me type like they think I only love pigs & cows while everyone else only likes the “cute furry kind”
Claire 4 years ago
Have you thought about going vegan? It sounds like you are doing a lot of good work for animals and care a lot. I was vegetarian for years up until I realized that the egg and dairy industries are just as horrible as any meat industry.
Load More Replies... DC 4 years ago
They call this "agriculture" and refer to it as if it was some sort of accomplishment of mankind that we've succeeded so far in doing so. As long as other animals' suffering isn't cared for, neither will human suffering. Or, maybe, neither even should.......
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Well, until lab-grown meat becomes HUGE, we're stuck with it.
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Evelyn Haskins 4 years ago
That is an incorrect an extreme exaggeration. I'm neither a cat nor a dog, and I care! Be like Horton say what you mean, and mean what you say!!
#21
Yesterday I found out my wife has only a week left
⭐Onyx (they/them)⭐ 4 years ago
I'm so incredibly sorry, I can't begin to understand your pain. I hope this week is one of you best and again, I am so so so sorry
Cheri Aline Sydney 4 years ago
Take time to just be together in whatever you do for the remaining time... May all the memories you made together help comfort you on the remainder of your jourmey. Wishing both of you, and all of your loved ones, Heaven's blessings. !
#22
Whales that sing in the wrong key get lost and are alone in the ocean.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
I think that’s based on the one 52 Hertz whale that might be a hybrid. Bc whaling decimated large whale populations, there are species hybrids.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
tone deaf more like tone death am i right? -sorry, that's really sad-
#23
One day, sometime far far far in the future, someone is going to speak your name for the very last time and then you’ll be completely forgotten about.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Yeah, that is way of it and i'm not arguing.
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François Carré 4 years ago
Same happened to some 100 billion of human beings so far, so I don't feel very lonely with this.
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Every time I add a long-dead ancestor to my family tree I can't help thinking that by writing their names I'm briefly restoring them to life. But their names aren't THEM - I know no more about their personalities than they know of mine. The prospect of being forgotten within a few years of my death doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Tobias the Tiger 4 years ago
I was just gonna point that out... man, I remember seeing that movie for the first time and thinking "If they kill off that skeleton, I'm gonna be pissed."
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Claire Genie 4 years ago
I find this so sad too. I was fascinated doing my family tree... to speak their names
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You never get to see your child's entire life.. Or you do..
lenka 4 years ago
As devstating as it is, I hope my children see the end of my life. Not the other way around.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Most parents would give their life to not have to see their child's death.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
My brother and sister-in-law had a son who died when he was 10 and their marriage survived, which is unusual in this situation, but he had a neurological disorder that no one was able to diagnose, so there was no blaming, which is why most marriages die with the child. They donated his brain to Stanford University, and Stanford never did figure out exactly what it was, but they did make some advancements in other related situations like ALS.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
Both of these are sad but the thought of seeing their entire life is just a little sadder to me...
Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
There are parts of everyone's life that no parent gets to see. I read the first part, and the second did not make sense for a moment.
#25
That sex trafficking children is real, actively ongoing, and adults will be professionally doing it all across the world at any given point
#26
There is a remote island in the south Pacific that had a lighthouse built on it in the 1700s. The keeper kept a cat to keep him company. Everyday the cat would bring the keeper a dead bird. The keeper had never seen birds of this type before, so he kept the tiny carcasses to show scientists who'd be on exploration ships. The scientists determined that they were flightless songbirds - the only known species of flightless songbird ever discovered, then and now. One day the cat just stopped bringing the birds to the keeper. One cat caused the extinction of an entire unique species. No one ever saw a living specimen and no one ever heard their song.
ƒιѕн 4 years ago
I would think with the plague of mice AU has you would appreciate some cats and foxes.
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Poor cat was probably hated on for the rest of it's life too. The cat didn't know what it was doing, so I'm not angry. I'm sure others were though.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
The Wake Island Rail (also flightless) suffered this fate at the hands of humans during WW2.
#27
There's more people in slavery now than in the 17-1800's. Pretty sad
Pink Rose 4 years ago
I’m not sure if slave like conditions count as slavery
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Iapetos 4 years ago
It's frustrating. You're vegan because you want to harm no one, and then your tomatoes were harvested by people living like slaves.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
....and that's because there's relatively "handful" of vegans. Once again quoting Pythagoras: "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will NEVER know HEALTH or PEACE. For as long as men massacre animals, they WILL kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain CANNOT reap joy and love." - Pythagoras (570 - 480 BC/BCE) Greek mathematician & philosopher ....when will people get it? We don't have another millennium, not even a century, or perhaps a decade.
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Bubble Gum Bandit 4 years ago
People on this site defending China, curious if anyone of them have heard of the Uyghurs. They are literally being sold around the world right now, placed in forced labor factory/camps. I'm sorry for what happened in the U.S. a hundred and fifty six years ago, however, it is worse now than it has ever been.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago (edited)
Bubble, I'm sure they did hear about them, but they don't want to listen.
Load More Replies... KatHat 4 years ago (edited)
Buy Fair Trade groceries. Buy clothing from places like Pact. There are SO MANY OPTIONS and yes, some of them will cost a little more but that is the COST OF THE ITEM. Cheap goods are literally subsidized by some poor person somewhere; your cost saving is covered by their slave labor or wage theft or inhumane conditions.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Oh, yes, KatHat, first, you would have to find people who care, and here is why they don't. - "Do not fancy that you will lower yourselves by sympathy with the lower creatures; you CANNOT sympathize RIGHTLY with the higher, unless you do with those." - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) English essayist, critic, reformer
Load More Replies... Candia Lee 4 years ago
This is a headline from NY Daily News, and misleading. World population increased from 610k in 1700 to 7,700k in 2020. There are now 3 times as many slaves, so proportionally fewer people are currently enslaved: 1/3 > 6/77
Keyy 4 years ago
and i get what this post is trying to do i really do but the world population in the 17 and 1800 was less than 1 billion actually less than 700,000,000 .. today its close to 8 billion soooooo let that sink in
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
.... and that's what only humans can fix: do not have more then one, or two children, for Earth's sake, for sake of all of us!!! Is that so hard to understand you "smart" human species which is placing itself above all other sentient life? In so many aspects of empathy and instincts of survival human species is the lowest of all forms of life on this planet.
Load More Replies... XxGlitched_CherryxX 4 years ago
What? Oh no... I hate slavery and "Owning humans". It is not right!
#28
785 million people do not have access to safe water. (Access includes having having water within a 30 minute round trip for collecting it and carrying it home).
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
And this is one reason why I don't agree with people having millions and millions of dollars when millions of people don't even have the basics to survive let alone lavish luxuries.
Patti Renwick Parrish 4 years ago
the rich who have all the money won't be reading this... they are too busy counting their millions and looking at themselves in the mirror.
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
This is why the church I went to in my college years dedicates a major portion of their donations to building water filtration systems in areas where safe drinking water is scarce...
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
Is that including all the people in the USA who are living in areas where the water has been contaminated by industries which left and put the costs of cleaning the environment on the tax payer's plate?
Kay blue 4 years ago
I think it's insane that the water I use to flush my toilet is good drinking water.
Mary Rose Kent 4 years ago
If you can think of a feasible way for this to not be true without leaving you with any potable water, present it to your local government. If it works in one place, other places might want to take steps to have it work in their communities as well.
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
The rich should start giving instead of hoarding their money and not using it at all. If I ever make a ton of money, I'm giving a ton to help people like this.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
The problem is that the rich need their money to be richer. What does the money do, you may ask? Nothing! That's why it's so important!
Load More Replies... Call Me Mars 4 years ago
Where I live as an ex-pat in Baku, Azerbaijan, tap water is ONLY allowed for teeth-brushing (barely), and showering/bathing. You have to buy water tanks to drink water, but not all local families can afford it.
Rick 4 years ago
How is this controlled? (Assuming taps are not on public display where you are being watched).
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Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Again, human overpopulation - mostly in third world countries, overconsumption, greed, in the first world countries......it is always humans who are creating problems for themselves and for the rest of innocent life.
Craymoss 4 years ago
For allot of people it’s a choice also. Deeming the stats said in this, ie, not having any water within a 30 minute round trip.. you know how many people live out and off the land away from anybody and because of this, their own choice, have no access to water? So the statistics for this are off..
Stephen Foley 4 years ago
Which is why big companes should NEVER be permited to abstract, bottle, and sell water at a profit.
#29
Life can be heartbreakingly unfair. A friend‘s sister suddenly passed away because of a heart attack last summer at age 40, leaving behind a bright, young, then orphaned son. My friend and his wife immediately took him in, gave him a home, and cared so much for him. They were very careful, loving, and considerate. They found a preschool for him, went to therapy with him and participated in it in order to support him getting through the trauma of losing your only parent. In December my friend passed away because of a heart attack.
Mazer 4 years ago
I went to school with a kid who seemed to live in a world of tragedy, first his sister died, two years later, his parents were killed in an automobile accident, a year after, he was asked to help move a heavy kiln in our art class (stupid idea to ask a student), the other people moving the kiln dropped their side resulting in crushing all of his fingers. Yeah, be kind to people, you have no idea what sh*t they have been through
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
He better f*cking get good karma or i'm suing olympus.
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The Cute Cat 4 years ago
Never ever see on the dark side only. That boy will shine on his time..
#30
Many people go through the last years of their life sad and chronically lonely
María Hermida 4 years ago
And in chronic pain and financial difficulties.
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V33333P 4 years ago
Same. If it gets to the point I know my fate (an incurable disease for instance) I'm more than happy to do the job myself, but it's explicitly in my will that I want to be helped over if I'm incurable or a burden. I've seen too many people suffer (worked retirement homes as a teen, and my grandmother suffered) to not support it
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Be Potato 4 years ago
I am still in my early 20s and I have been experiencing this since I was 15. At this point, I do not know when or how it will end tbh
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
If at all possible, get therapy ASAP. I had a miserable time in my 20's and dealt with chronic depression into my 50's. Finally got the help I needed and things are better. Don't wait.
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Allan Breum 4 years ago
Which is why you should be allowed to "punch out" when you're done with life.
Random Anon 4 years ago
I am a proponent of euthanasia because of this. I am not saying we get rid of the elderly. I am saying if I ever regress to a state where I can no longer live with dignity, I prefer to sign-out on my own terms.
Lucy Shupe 4 years ago
Well you can have my MIL, that’s 92. In November we had to move her to a nursing home in our home town. There were strict COVID rules we had to follow so we didn’t get to see her for a couple of months. When she was able to be moved into assisted living, she didn’t want to. She didn’t want to be with other people. She has CHOSEN to turn her back on companionship. Sometimes people choose that loneliness.
#31
A guy in my area had just retired on a Friday. The following Wednesday he was out fishing and a thunderstorm came up. He pulled his boat out of the lake and while standing next to his car on the boat ramp lightning took him out. 5 blessed days of retirement.
Scagsy 4 years ago
The biggest irony in that song was that Alanis Morissette set out to make a song all about irony, but struggled to come up with anything ironic to put in it. Thus, she made a song called 'Ironic' that wasn't and, because of that, was.
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Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
My mum retied and after few weeks she died unexpectedly. My dad was meant to retire a month after she died so they never had that time together and enjoy retirement together :(
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
At least he didnt die at work. I'd rather have a short retirement than spend my last hours working for money I won't use
Lynne Stark 4 years ago
I just joked to a coworker, I hate when someone dies "doing what they love". I told him if I die at work I want to be remembered that I died, greatfully as I was doing something I hated lol
Load More Replies... Lynne Stark 4 years ago
My father died shortly after retirement. With a brand new extended cab pick up and Fifth Wheel in the driveway. A good friend of his told me that broke his heart because he really worked so hard and deserved time with his brand new toys
Dutchdancemum 4 years ago
Our neighbor was a farmer, never took a day off or went on holiday his entire life, retired at 60 and left the farm to his son, died 3 months later from a heart attack. I still sometimes think about it :(
Shirley Heyn 4 years ago
. . . and probably never got his first Social Security or Pension checks!
Bei Stenhaug 4 years ago
Not knowing the guy or anyone who miss him, the story is kinda funny... gotta laugh at those stories.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
Something similar happened to my neighbours father. They went out for a meal to celebrate the father's retirement and he had a fatal heart attack at the table. My neighbour had to spend the last few moments with his father giving him cpr
#32
I'm madly in love with my wife of 35 years. We are each others best friends and we are together 24/7. We do massages on each other every morning and snuggle/spoon together all night. We haven't spent a night apart in 3 decades. We are older now and I know one of us is going to die alone.
lenka 4 years ago
This is actually my greatest fear - that I will outlive my husband. Not because I dont want to die alone - I am ok with that. I just cant imagine having to live a life without him.
Zedrapazia 4 years ago
Same to me. I'm so extremely scared to die without my love, it leaves me anxious
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DarkLumiya 4 years ago
take it this way, many people die alone without knowing any love or affection
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
And that's why you make the most of the short time you have together. So when you're alone you won't be lonely because you have so many beautiful memories that keep you warm inside.
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
I imagine they are just swans. The other will die shortly after. That's how I want to go!
Rage of Aquarius 4 years ago
Reminds me of the time my dad and I were talking about my mum's degenerative nerve condition and he teared up, and looked over at her in the kitchen and whispered, "She's going to have to go first."
#33
The Ukranian Famine (Holodomor) killed at least 3.5mil people back in 1932-1933. Stalin's insane plans to optimize state crops while starving out the farmers themselves is some of the most horrific sh*t I've ever heard of. Death by starvation has got to be one of the worst possible ways to go.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The English did the same thing to the Irish during the Great Famine. The enforced poverty killed just as many people as the potato blight itself.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Churchill denied food supplies to India during World War 2, leading to a similar sized famine. We also shouldn't forget Mao's "Great Leap Forward" - killng sparrows lead to an increased insect population which caused a massive famine as well
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lara 4 years ago
Mao did the same thing to his people. Mao decided that birds ate too much grain so he decreed that all birds must die so the commies paid a bounty for each dead bird brought in. There was famine for several years because the birds, who killed the insects that ATE the grain, were dead, the insects thrived and went insane. With regard to Stalin, he even had, if you will, a "poop" patrol. These were agents who were sent out to examine the feces of the Ukrainians, if the agents found undigested grain in the feces they knew that the people were eating grain and killed them and their families.
Freddie The Sort Of OK 4 years ago
And the responsibility of this mostly falling squarely at the feet of delirious "geneticist" Trofim Lysenko. He influenced state farming policies for +/- 30 years, set Russian genetics science so far back to a point they haven't even recovered from yet and personally hasn't produced a shred of scientific litterature that could be considered remotely credible. He's Russia's farming equivalent of Andrew Wakefield.
Pamda Panda 4 years ago
Mao Zedong did the same thing. The China famine, which lasted from 1958-1962 killed anywhere between 15-55 million people.
Ruth Watry 3 years ago
He killed the farmers because they refused to collectivize - I had a professor who was there at the time - people were eating your children (especially in rural areas), and if you were out alone after dark, you were at risk of being murdered and eaten.
Ms LaDonna 4 years ago (edited)
The same thing happened to the Chinese. And we still have 7.9 billion people.
#34
Rwanda genocide School children massacred with machetes It could have been prevented And this is why I hate the expression “everything happens for a reason)
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
It is always cited by those to whom "everything" did not happened yet. And when it will happen, they will be singing a very different tune: 'Why? Why me?'.
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Sonia Bailey 4 years ago
Everything does happen for s reason - it's just sometimes the reasons are f*****g horrible and incomprehensible to anyone with a heart.
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
If there is no god with a divine plan and someone gets struck by lightning and dies, isn't that death by random occurrence? I wouldn't consider that the person dying for a reason in the sense as stated by original poster.
Load More Replies... nunya bussiness 4 years ago
i never thought of that expression that way...thanks for introducing me to another point of view.
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
The expression is simply misused. Everything dose happen for a reason. They died because of some jerks with a machete. It's meant to mean find the greater reason. Terrible loss but we can learn how to not let it happen again.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
"We" can learn, but "we" never do, Dillon. What humanity needs is a shot of UNIVERSAL compassion, which must be extended to all living sentient creatures; only then we will not need any other shots.
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Darlynn Margrave 4 years ago
I hate people that say that. I usually punch them in throat and then ask them what was the reason for that.
#35
You can do everything in your power and work as hard as you possibly can, sometimes [stuff] just doesn't work out. You very well won't ever accomplish your dream, despite all your efforts.
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
I hate this kind of mentality.You may not acomplish your "dream" but you're still likely to end up in a really good place. Like if u get straight As and don't get into an ivy League uni you still have much greater options than the rest of your peers. And if u don't go uni at all, you may still be more knowledgeable than those around you , wherever that may be. Hard work always pays off. The degree to which is does depends on luck and a whole load of factors but it still leaves you better off than where you were before.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
What LaLa land do you live in? Hard work does not always pay off by any stretch of the imagination. I look around at the friends who burned out following this dumb philosophy, at their addiction, homelessness, mental illness struggles, and it makes me rage.
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David Leick 4 years ago
Personally I feel that this is liberating, rather than sad. Realizing and accepting that no matter how hard you try, you are never completely in control of the outcome, and that's ok.
labaguette🥖️🥖️ 4 years ago
Yeah. Stuff happens. Maybe it wasn’t your first choice. Or your second choice. Maybe it wasn’t even on your radar of preferences. But we have to make things work for us, okay? We have to make our dreams happen despite the things that happen to us, things that we might not like. So put that effort in, because if it doesn’t go your preferred way, you’ll have the strength to overcome that. That was long and unnecessary.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
Very, very true. Would you believe that some successful people admit it ? "It's hard work and lot's of luck too." It is destiny (?) some of us just aren't lucky.
#36
Stephen Hawking died a little over a year before the first photograph of a black hole
wifeofweasley 4 years ago
He didn't. But I'm pretty sure he didn't needed to. He was so damn smart and knew so much about black holes that one blurry pic wouldn't make a diffrence. (not to discredit the pic! It's amazing that this was captured!)
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François Carré 4 years ago
But he still outlived 50 years more than what was expected due to his genetic illness, so I guess he was fine with it anyway. Besides, he was wise and knew so much about black holes that he could do without a blurry picture.
Bella, Your Kitty-Loving Queen 4 years ago
Is only he could see all we have accomplished now 😢
#37
Researchers accidentally killed the oldest animal in 2006
DoomsdayDuck555 4 years ago
They also chopped down the world's oldest tree to see how old it was
𝕊𝕒𝕞 (𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪/𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕞) 4 years ago
of course. of course humanity. WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS???
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nunya bussiness 4 years ago
i have a sad story to tell...at the toronto zoo, there is a memorial statue of a gorilla, and if you read the plaque, it says that the gorilla died because a family came and fed the gorilla something that is extremely lethal to it, and it died a few days later.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Wtf?? That's why you dont feed the animals!
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XxGlitched_CherryxX 4 years ago
I heard of this. I think what I heard was that they left it in a freezer or something and it died.
Bisexual Backflipping 4 years ago
Yup! Ming the clam, 500 something years old! They accidentally killed him while trying to figure out how old he was. Ironic.
#38
There is a plastic bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago
I’m calling foul, at least on the photo provided. The floor of the Marina trench doesn’t have vegetation like that. It’s mostly bare.
CLEMSONFAN 4 years ago
Bro. If you were close enough to take the picture, you were close enough to clean up the trash, right?
lol idk 4 years ago
why is the deepest spot on the earth so lit up, and i thought the bottom of the marina trench wouldn't have plants? :/ I SMELL CAPPP
Claire the Bear 4 years ago
this is a stock photo, this isnt the marina trench!
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A majority of people, when asked, would rather die at home than at the hospital. A majority of people, when recorded, die at the hospital rather than at home.
Kiss Army 4 years ago
I agree. When there was "nothing else to be done", we were able to take my dad home (with Hospice care) because he wanted to die at home but he still had to suffer needlessly because there was "nothing else to be done" but let him suffer, basically.
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Eslamala 4 years ago (edited)
I'd rather die at the hospital. I would never make my family deal with a corpse if I could avoid it.
Caroline Nagel 4 years ago
Both my parents died in their own home, not necessarily in their own beds: in Belgium you can rent hospital beds - for next to nothing - and there are nurses who exclusively take care of people at home - again costing you next to nothing. So both my parents where taken care of at home in a hospital bed by qualified nurses who visited twice a day. When they died the undertaker came to collect their bodies and the beds where taken away after one phone call. They both wanted to die at home and in our country people are able to.
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I’m very visual, so if any of my loved ones died at home I would retain that image of their last moments and find it a big challenge to continue living in my home. This is a huge topic. Is it selfish to insist on dying at home without regard to how it will affect others? Or should the dying person have their request honoured? I guess there’s no right answer.
Ruth Watry 3 years ago
Some change their mind when the end comes and want to do everything possible to postpone their deaths
Darlynn Margrave 4 years ago
I think wanting to die at home is selfish. I've seen what it does to the family that has to care for you while you're shitting yourself , comatose or moaning in pain. I would never ever do that. I will be like a cat or elephant .
Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
Health systems can't profit from people dying at peace in their own bed.
Rick 4 years ago
That depends on what country you live in (or rather, which country you don’t...)
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It hit me like a brick. Was thinking about my dad who died at 73. Thinking about my age (44) I realized my life was likely more than halfway over.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Well going by my family history I have about 15-25 years to live.
Don't Look 4 years ago
this one was worth pointing out. My grandfather didn't make it past 60. His son, my dad, is 86. All my dads siblings lived well past 60.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. No matter how old your grandparents or parents were when they died, you don't know when you're going to die.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
We humans have more control over our health and longevity than you realize. "We" usually abuse our bodies when we are young and death is far, far away: alcohol, tobacco, drugs, consumption of animal proteins. My blood relatives suffered/suffer from all chronic diseases there are: arthritis, diabetes, heart diseases, cancers, you name it, somebody in my family had it; I am a vegan, have non of that what so ever, but I'm weirdo and stupid.
François Carré 4 years ago
My great-grandfather died at 90, my grandfather at 69, my father at 55. I'm 43 now, I try not to think too much about this, but don't tell me about so-called increase in life expectancy. Deep chemical pollution in the environment and within our own bodies is likely going to kill us younger than we think, and appropriate medical treatments will only be available to the rich - at least if we do nothing about society such as it works nowadays.
Wombatred26 4 years ago (edited)
If I live as long as my mother (44) or her mother (51), I have between 5 and 12 years... I'm 39.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
My grandparents died little over 60. Both my dad and his sister, my aunt, we expecting to die ever since hitting that mark. Hopping for few years together ;( Another sad realisation was my mom expressed vocally during one of the funerals of some relative,- "That's it, we're the oldest generation left". It must hit like ton of bricks to realise that.
#41
A dog will lie awake at night after getting in trouble or having a bad day thinking about it. Additionally dogs feed off our energy so if you are having a bad day, anxious or depressed that actually rubs off on your dog.
reddaesthetics 4 years ago
this has encouraged me to have a happy life so my dog isnt sad, thx :)
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
My grandmother just grounded our dog and now I feel bad. Hes grounded for a week
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
Oh no i feel so bad for my doggos i hope its not rubbing off onto them too much
#42
Mother hamsters will sometimes eat their newborn babies. This can be for a variety of reasons, but one of the major problems is that a mother hamster will get stressed out and assume that she does not have enough food or space for all of the babies to survive inside of their tiny cage.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Someone has told me their hamster did this, so I knew about it. Doesn't make it less sad or horrifying though.
Patsy 4 years ago
I had one that did it...I happened across her...doing the deed...as far as I could see, that was the runt of the litter.
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Humans can never win, no matter the choices you make there will always be someone who won't agree with you.
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At the 9/11 museum I learned the unfortunate fact that Flight 93 flew upside down for a period of time before crashing in the field. Apparently, people all over the plane were vomiting. If you’ve even been on a flight where someone throws up nearby, you can imagine how disgusting, awful, and traumatizing this had to have been. Breaks my heart just thinking about it. Another sad fact is that 8 children were on those planes. 3 were on a trip to California with their teacher. Two siblings (ages 8 and 3) were traveling with the parents, and after missing their original flight, were put on Flight 77 (crashed into the Pentagon.) I was in middle school at the time, but nearly 20 years later, 9/11 facts continue to haunt me.
That Guy 4 years ago (edited)
Don't downvote Bill's comment. "Okay. Let's roll." These were the last words spoken by Beamer heard by Lisa Jefferson, one of the passenger trying to take back control of Flight 93 before it fell on the field. They failed, but made sure that the plane didn't reach its suspected target, the White House or the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington
Kiss Army 4 years ago
There was an Air Force nose decal made with the "Let's Roll" to commemorate this. Lets_roll_...82d0c8.jpg 
Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
Oh god. I wasn’t alive during 9/11 but the more I learn the harder it is to accept that it happened
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Victor Botha 4 years ago
And you are an air crash investigator with the NTSB Mama Bear??
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#44
The inevitability of entropic decay I guess
I used to worry about death, then I thought I could live on through others, then I realized those others will eventually die, then I realized that even if they build a statue of your greatness and fill history books with your name, civilizations will crumble, history will be forgotten, stars will burn out, until eventually the heat death of the universe
I used to romanticize star trek as the ultimate goal of humanity, but now I realize that no matter how much we progress, how well we get along and focus on a common goal, how much of space we explore, how many planets we terraform, no matter how much we try to bring peace and order to chaos, everything and everyone will eventually die and become nothing
And what's worse, in this incredibly temporary and meaningless existence most conscious creatures get, they are miserable, mistreated, exploited, unfulfilled, trodden upon and left behind for others to get ahead
So basically working on a saturday is a nonesense
StormWolf 4 years ago
Nihilism often is. Imo it's also incorrect in its conclusions. Yes eventually every thing and every one will turn to dust, but that in no way implies that it is without meaning. If we concentrate only on the end of the story, we deprive ourselves of all the fascinating little plot-points along the way.
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lara 4 years ago
ohfergawdsake. Do you really want to live forever? Why? I cannot imagine anything more boring. You really think you will get off your ass and accomplish something if you live forever? "Oh, when I am 600 years old I will learn to play the piano."
Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
*Me on my 600th birthday* I'll look for piano tutor tomorrow.
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Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
... and it is not even finished yet. No full stop at the end either.
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Kno 4 years ago
Thank you for the existential crisis. I can't lie lie down and die though, no? No matter how meaningless stuff i do now will be for anyone in the future...it matters to someone now. So now really is all that matters in the long shot. Yeah, the sun will burst and burn the earth to ashes, and everything will be lost and forgotten eventually, but in our short and meaningless lives, we at least had fun? Loved? Been loved? We watched the sunrise or the sunset and thought it was the most beautiful ever. It mattered to us, in that moment. Can't succomb to this truth, must trugde on despite it.
Chich 4 years ago
If 'cold death' is the route the universe takes, it means that overall, this bright period of galaxies and stars will be so brief as to be virtually non existent. Trillions and trillions of years of darkness and cold is the normal state it is headed for, until time itself stops.
Hermitbunny 4 years ago (edited)
Does time exist if there's nothing alive to witness or mark it's passing?
Load More Replies... Cassie Ward-Renshaw 4 years ago
i never think like this, i’ll be happy if a lovely tree grows on my grave im easily pleased 😅
#45
There are over 2,500 ancient languages that are either already extinct, or in danger of being forgotten forever.
Mohammad Ammar 4 years ago
To be honest who cares. Languages change and evolve all the time, no point in getting attached.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
As a language disappears so does the collective culture, knowledge, experience and oral tradition of those who spoke it.
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#46
Last year in the worst of the pandemic, residents of North Korea had to hand over their pets to supply food. I can't even imagine how heartbreaking it had to be to send your source of happiness to let others and yourself eat it.
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
Absolute rubbish. They were told to get rid of their cats or not let them indoors as they thought that covid would spread quicker, as cats had been tested in South Korea and it was found to be carrying the infection
Cass 4 years ago
Most North Koreans are so poor they can't afford to keep pets. Everything has to have a purpose. People with pets are mostly those who are a bit better off. Still, they would probably not be able to eat the meat the pets provided. Eating meat is a privilege that "better" citizens have. The pet owners would also have been punished if they were so desperate for food that they killed and ate their own pets. The person that did it, and their families risk going to work camps for such things. In North Korea, the families of "criminals" are punished too, even if they did not commit the crime or know of it.
Psycho Cat 3 years ago
Okay, someone made this up. First of all, if it were true, how would you know about that, with all the strict rules regarding communication with the people of North Korea? This is a lie and I am 100 % sure of that.
Computernaut 4 years ago
Isn't North Korea a closed country? How do they even have the pandemic?
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
HOW CAN PEOPLE OVER THERE BE SO HEARTLESS! BEING PN THE INTERNET IS A CRIME PUNSIHABLE BY DEATH. MOVING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY IS A CRIME PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. HOW ARE PEOPLE SO CRUEL!??
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
It's North Korea. The absolute bottom of the country barrel.
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About 80% of ducklings won't reach their first birthday
RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago
Nature is cruel, but that’s why so many ducklings are born to a mother duck. The strongest survive. It’s natures way of controlling the population.
Iapetos 4 years ago
Nature's not cruel. But the predators' children need to eat, too.
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Nevits Yibble 4 years ago (edited)
If that statistic makes this person sad, I wonder how they'd feel if they knew the survival rate of sea turtles
#48
Mine is that there are a lot of dead bodies inside the death zone on Mount Everest, and they will just lay there forever because no one can go to retrieve them
RadiatorAnkleSpider 4 years ago
They actually use these frozen bodies as markers for climbers. They’re serving a useful purpose in death.
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
As the glaciers move , the bodies will inevitably become apart of Mt Everest .. I think that’s a lovely poetic way to be remembered.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
And don't forget all the trash up there too. Tourists ruin everything.
Cadmar Orion 4 years ago
I don't remember what it's actually called, but there's a "rainbow gorge" or something, named because of the different colours of the coats of the people who fell and died there. I believe, been a while since I read the book that I learned that
Daniel Marsh 4 years ago
Worse yet: they are thawing and contaminating formerly pristine drinking water.
#49
My cat has a tumor in her stomach
-Loki's_favorite_kid- 4 years ago
I'm sorry. My cat had a tumor in her kidney and didn't surrvive.
Alex Boomhower 4 years ago
im so sorry, i just had to put my cat of 18 years down yesterday. I'm so so sorry that you have to experience this absolute heartbreak.
I'm ~*tired*~ 4 years ago
i used to have a siamese and he was the biggest little as***** ive ever met. he had a tumor. one day he just didnt wake up. my heart goes to you. <3
#50
An Octopus dies after giving birth because she stops eating while hatching their eggs. Edit: She lays eggs and does not give birth. And she protects that egg and therefore eats nothing until it has hatched. I really didn't think right while typing the sentence I'm sorry.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
I learnt this watching My octopus teacher. It was so sad. I cried like a baby.
Chillace 4 years ago
also, theres an octopus that attracts mates by detaching and flinging its penis
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
Recently the deep sea cameras were following one octopus mom for about 4 tears as she stood by her eggs. Finally she died, but they say young octopus around the area. Mission accomplished.
François Carré 4 years ago
And they're so clever ! If it was not for that infortunate breeding condition, mothers could pass experienced-based knowledge to their children and they would create real octopus civilizations.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
She will also blow water over the eggs to keep them oxygenated until she dies. Shortly after her death, the baby octopus emerge.
#51
i forget the percentage of it but a shocking amount of people die alone with no spouse or family. this always seemed to be a pessimistic estimation to me but it really sunk in when i worked in a hospital. which means our chances of dying alone in some nursing home or house is higher than we think.
Isabella 4 years ago
Even if you have children, chances to die alone are high, unfortunately the children can not be all the time with you, not even when you are in hospital.😔
Kiss Army 4 years ago
True. I was with my dad when he died, but my husband's mother died during surgery and his father had Alzheimer's and Dementia and died in his sleep at the nursing home. My mom, thankfully, is still with us.
Load More Replies... Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
I think it's good. I don't want my spouse or children watch me die. It would be hard but harder on them.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Well dying is a lonely process. No matter how rich or poor you are, you'll die and the absence or presence of people won't change a bit to the outcome.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
I just hope I know when I'm getting close to that, at least that way I can off myself with some dignity.
Caroline Nagel 4 years ago
Maybe they are alone because everybody they knew and loved died before them. It's not only shitty people who die alone. A lot of those don't die alone.
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Identity theft is not a joke. Millions of families suffer every year.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Identity theft is becoming more and more of a problem because of social media. People post personal information on social media and criminals abuse that information to steal their identity. Most simple example. Sandy posts on fakebook that her mom became 50 today with a link to Mom's fakebook page. Both have also posted their adresses and phone numbers. So the next day Mom gets a text from Sandy asking her to pay some bills for her because she has a problem with the bank but these bills have to be paid immediately. Oh, and by the way, my phone is broken so I'm using the phone of my bff Nicole.... So mom pays the bills to help her daughter, only to find out that Sandy never asked her to pay some bills and she doesn't have problems with the bank and her phone isn't broken.
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#53
Bill Finger, the man who created a vast majority of if not everything that makes Batman a success today, not only never got credit in his lifetime, but was also called a liar by Bob Kane. Kane who came up with an idea of a bat themed vigilante called The Bat-Man, later used his fathers law firm to make up a contract in which he not only got sole credit but also any major proceeds stemming from the success of Batman. Bill died penniless and on his couch in a bad apartment in 1974 while Kane was running around telling everyone he created Batman and such.
François Carré 4 years ago
How to be yourself the super-villain for the super-hero you claim to have created.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Oh yes, I remember learning about this from a man who came to my school some years back. I actually remember asking a very important question, it was "Were you the one who inspired Superman to be sold to DC?", but he misheard me and thought I asked, "Were you the one who inspired Superman?", so he thought I was a complete idiot (because he gave about an hour long speech about Superman, Batman, and Bill Finger, and he kept saying how he was not alive when both of the famous superheroes were created). So now I'll never know. But at least now I know a whole lot more about Superman and Batman than a lot of people ever will :p
#54
The grinch lived where everyone dumped their trash. So how do you think he obtained his dog max? Someone threw the dog away in a dump on the tip of a frozen cliffside, surely to die. F*ck the whos.
Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
The whos down in Whoville were bitches And Cindy Lou Who was a c**t Her family threw away a puppy With patches all over his front "Phew" said the family of Whos "We're finally done with that dog." And left him to die on Mount Krumpet Crying in the swirling fog There the young Grinch found him Gave him a home and a bed And that is the REAL reason why The Grinch wanted Christmas dead.
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Dhukath 4 years ago
The Grinches home was on mount Krumpet, he gets all his stuff from a white that the Who's above all their Christmas (and other) rubbish in, "dump it to krumpet" in the book, the fan theory goes as above!
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that i won't get to feel my husbands presence anymore...he passed away suddenly on the 11th i miss him every minute of the day
Dispatcherqueen 4 years ago
I'm sorry. Go to familyfriendlypoems.com and look up Death Is Nothing At All. I hope it helps you in some small way. I would post it here, but it is too long, and you must read the full version. It ends with...."How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting, when we meet again"
#56
Penguins sometimes get raped by sea lions. These young seals are those who can't mate with a female because a larger sea lion controls a massive harem. After getting raped, the penguins' head are munched off most of the time.
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
Going to add Sea Otters to this. Yes playful, cute, smart, etc, but non-dominant males will drown & rape young seals. So technically they are homicidal pedophile necrophiliacs...
sylvanticx 4 years ago
orangutans rape eachother. it's a display of dominance. in some cases the females do it to other females to show them who's the boss, but it's usually the males doing it.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Bleach 🥛(I know its milk dont come @ me) + eyes👀 = much better. Now see no evil 🙈 because I see nothing
#57
Whenever I change an old spiral florescent or incandescent lightbulb in seldom used fixture, I think to myself, "This bulb will probably out live me." I'm not dying of anything that I know of, but I'm at that age where I know most of my years are probably behind me.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
At 33, I've reached the point where things I built when I was 18-20 are needing to be re-done. I find that irritating because 13-15 years doesn't feel like that long ago. Thinking about building them better is also depressing because I have no intent of having children, and therefore no one to pass those new sturdier things on to.
Honu 4 years ago
It gets depressing thinking about your lasts. I was talking with an elderly person once about books. He said that he was very particular about what he chose to read. He figured he'd be lucky to have 5 more years. He read about 20 books a year, so he figured he had a maximum of 100 more books in his lifetime, fewer if his faculties diminished in those final years. I've had similar conversations with people about last pets. Elderly people with elderly pets that knew that when that one died, that was it. They did not want adopt another because they knew they risked dying before them and possibly leaving them in a bad situation.
Whipple Walker 4 years ago
my Father-in-law used to do this with uncommon tasks (like re-roofing and the like) he would say that "based on how long the last one lasted, the next time it needed doing he'd be dead" Irritated my mother in law to no end.... She complained about it to me one day and I told her how to stop it. Sure enough a few months later the AC went out and had to be replaced. after the work crew left he said his line. Which she responded to by saying she had bought some more toothpaste and that he might not need another tube of that either.
#58
I learnt today that if a grizzly bear has a single cub it will abandon it
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Evolution doesn't care about the individual, it only 'cares' about reproductive success. So long as abandoning that cub results in a female producing more surviving cubs in her lifetime, then evolution will favor that strategy.
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Not if by abandoning that one she produces more surviving cubs in total over her lifetime.
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
That’s just not true. Go watch Katmai live bear cam. Several years ago there was a baby called “velcro” who was known bc he clung to his mom.
Jessica Cifelli 4 years ago
Its the same for a cheetah cub. If a cub is born a singleton, the mother for some reason does not produce enough milk. Might be the same for a bear cub
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Most likely, that abandoned cub will be adopted by another female grizzly that either has twins or lost a cub to a tragedy.
#59
Junko Furuta's killers are alive and well and free.
Ellie J 4 years ago
This is one of the true crime cases that has always stayed with me, partly because of the pure brutality of what they did to that poor girl, but also because so many people stood by and let it happen. The boys parents who allowed her to be tortured in their house should have been charged too
Susan Green 4 years ago
I read about this and I was shocked. It has stayed with me too.
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Moondrop 4 years ago
I looked this up and am now HORRIFIED. I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.
Bisexual Backflipping 4 years ago
It's already 12:50 here, give me the gist of it
Load More Replies... AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Same with Jon Bonet Ramsey. Unless it was her parents which I think it was, then in that case, they're burning in hell now. I always said the mom's cancer was Karma.
#60
One day, the person who loved you and held you the most as a baby put you down and never picked you up again.
Or that likely dozens of species go extinct every day.
Jessica Nametz 4 years ago
The first one on this is seriously one of the most mind-blowing facts I have ever heard. I read it years ago and it has really stuck with me. I think about it quite a bit when I am holding my daughters (ages 2.5 and 6 months) and sometimes it breaks my heart to think that sometime in the next 10 years or less will be the last time I actually hold them (not just hug, which is an amazing feeling in itself)...
#61
eating disorders affect at LEAST 9% of the global population (that’s huge) and anorexia is the most lethal mental disorder there is, 1 in 10 people affected by it will die. not the most lethal eating disorder, the most lethal MENTAL disorder. and eating disorders rates have been climbing very rapidly these past few years.
Masen Silas 4 years ago
AND no one talks about/ believe it happens in males too. Its NOT a strictly female disorder
V33333P 4 years ago
Same with people who don't have an "anorexic body" but are starving their body of nutrients and breaking down and getting sick just as those that do. It's terrifying how blind people are to this
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Scott 4 years ago
As having struggled with anorexia when I was younger and overcome it (for the most part), I completely agree that it is beyond under appreciated, especially in males.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Yet no one talks about the eating disorders where you over eat like BED and OCED.
Eslamala 4 years ago
Even more so than obesity and all the diseases that stem from it? I highly doubt it.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Most obesity is due to lack of access to healthy food, or sedentary lifestyles. Binge eating disorder and mental eating disorders which could contribute to obesity absolutely do exist, but are responsible for only a very small percentage of cases of obesity.
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Whenever you see a lone Canada Goose, it has lost it’s family..
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago
Or maybe he was the biggest dickhead of the group and even they couldn't stand him.
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
They usually catch up with the rest. We often see one flying overhead honking like crazy trying to catch up. They're all headed to our local lakes so they can meet up there
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Sorry, but I feel little sympathy towards Canadian geese for a number of reasons.
#63
1 in 4 women will loose a pregnancy or infant
Eslamala 4 years ago
I had a miscarriage when I was 19. I know I'll get downvoted, but I was happy. Was going to have an abortion anyway.
François Carré 4 years ago
I guess you didn't want it, or deemed yourself much too young and unprepared anyway, so nobody has to judge you.
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
Actually, the "miscarriage" rate is much higher, but most women who had a miscarriage didn't know that they were pregnant. It wasn't until the advent of "early pregnancy tests" that women were aware that they were pregnant and then they "lost" the baby. What happened is the baby was not viable. Women's bodies are aware of the baby from the moment of conception and if the fetus is not viable the body will shed it. Generally, there is a "early" start of menses or an extra heavy flow. That's it.
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
I recall some article where they tried to study this, and while the sample size was quite low for obvious reasons, they found a correlation between miscarriage and genetic health issues with the fetus' that they were able to test.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Oh, this reminded me of something bad that happened to my sister in-law... I won't be sharing because she's still trying to get over sadness, but this is so sad. :'C
#64
if a sheep is not sheared, it will be weighed down and eventually fall over, and ends up starving to death
AqualiaGuineaPiggyWolfCat 4 years ago
That means, If sheep were wild, they would probably be extinct by now.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
Wild Sheep have the ability to shed their wool. It actually comes off in clumps. They assist the effort by rubbing against rocks and trees.
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Boris’ Mom 4 years ago
There was a sheep that apparently escaped its flock and was found with at least enough wool, it's said, that the sheep had been on its own for 5 years. It was found under an outcropping of a cliff.
#65
the teen suicide rate is steadily increasing in multiple states (last time i checked)
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Especially now that kids don't just deal with bullying at school, but online as well. There is just so much pressure. I hated school and was bullied relentlessly but I am so grateful that I grew up before the digital age.
Janus Sanders 4 years ago
it is so sad and also scary because me and lots of my friends are lgbtq+
Load More Replies... Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Mm, this hits me so hard. I was in a weird state for a very long time, where I felt like things would be so much easier on me if I were dead, but I didn't wanna kill myself because I knew other people would get sad. Also, I'm Christian, so I know that God put me on earth for a reason, so I didn't want to waste my life and cause my parents to be sad just so that I could feel better. I still think that life would be a lot easier for me if I were dead, but things are looking up for me a bit now, so I'm sticking around. But I'm becoming a teen, with the icky hormones and annoying behavior, so I'm afraid. Very afraid.
Monika Nagyova 4 years ago
Being a teenager is the most difficult part if life, everything feels just more, joy and sadness both. I was depressed during my teen years and contemplated suicide many times, I'm glad I was never too determined to actually go through with it. There is a possibility that it will be a tough ride for you but hang in there, think about the light at the end of the tunnel that is surely awaiting you at the other end of teenagehood. Keep in mind "The show must go on" because your show is worth it.
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
By your logic since teen populations are increasing suicides will increase and that makes it ok. Instead of finding and dealing with root cause of it and providing counsel to vulnerable you shrug it off as number's issue. How so pro "life" of you. Yeah I read your comment on miscarriage post. Where you said "And many of those women will do it intentionally." hinting at abortion. With you guys it's always about Anti-choice never about Pro-life.
Load More Replies... #66
People treating animals horribly will never stop.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
People treating animals horribly are also very likely to become violent criminals in later life.
#67
That every 20 seconds, a child dies from a lack of accesss to clean water.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
I hate this kind of propaganda. "Every minute a child dies of malnutrition, give money." "Every 20 seconds a child dies from lack of clean water, give money." Now on breaking news: Country where people are dying from hunger and lack of water has decided to spend $500 billion on the military.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
And recive billions of help funds since well over 6 decades and NOTHING has changed. The only thing that was archived was to keep more children alive and therefor increasing the problem of overpopulation in areas with low access to necessary ressourcess even more
Load More Replies... lara 4 years ago
The problem is not that there isn't enough money, the problem is that the governments of these countries do NOT think that it is their "job" to assure access to clean water, sanitation, food, schooling, etc. The US provides through direct assistance and charities things that the countries' governments can but won't supply.
#68
The average lifespan of an individual on the autism spectrum is 39 years.
Chewie Baron 4 years ago
Well I've got Asperger's which comes under the Autism umbrella. And I'm 47 so I'm doing well.
RoseTheMad 4 years ago
Oh good, I have about 13 and a half years left to live, then. (on the spectrum with Aspergers) I'm being sarcastic, I'm calling bs on this one, there are plenty of people who are well over 39 on the autistic spectrum that are alive... (Tim Burton, Daryl Hannah, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd, Satoshi Tajiri, Woody Allen, to name just a few famed people on the spectrum that are over 39 xP)
Janus Sanders 4 years ago
i hope this isn't true because both me and my sister are autistic. but most people in the comments seem to be saying it's bs so hopefully this is a fake fact
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago (edited)
NO I HAVE SO MANY AUTISTIC FRIENDS (Lol I'm being sarcastic I call bs)
#69
Chris Farley's last words where "Don't leave me", said to a prostitute who then stole his watch.
Ian Koch 4 years ago
don't downvote me into oblivion, but who is Chris Farley and how did he die?
001Frozendude 4 years ago
Drug addicted comedian who died a long time ago. Saturday Night Live.
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#70
Diarrhea is the #1 leading cause of death in children
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago
Diarrhoea which causes dehydration and is more prevalent in countries/regions that don't have access to clean water.
#71
Otters are rapists. As soon as a female is of age, males will violently attack her. Sometimes killing her and continuing to assault her corpse.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
There is research that shows that the biting of the nose may trigger ovulation.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
I- but- but I thought- otters are the cutest things though- but- the males- they're- they're RAPISTS?! D:>
#72
"Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it" Kermit : The Muppet Christmas Carol
Linus Nilsson 4 years ago
Why do you stop there? The saddest part comes right after! "I am sure that we shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting that there was among us." That's when the waterworks starts. Every damn year...
#73
The older we get, the older our parents get. My mom was 22, and my father was 24, when they both had me. At the age of 8, my father passed away. He was 32 years old at that time. Now, i’m 23 years old, and my moms 46……only got one parent left, and as much as I hope to have her forever, sadly, one day, I’ll lose her, too. And that’s just life.
Ellie J 4 years ago
Eslamala you're in the minority of people who can think like that. I've had family members die suddenly in front of me and it was so traumatic that it completely changed me as a person, you don't need to 'get' the anxiety, just be thankful you don't have it
IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
My Dad died suddenly of a brain aneurism. He was sitting up in bed talking on the phone and when I went in to ask if he wanted a cup of tea he was laying there dead. The doctor said it was just as if some had turned out the light. it was that instant. That was 13½ years ago and now my mother has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. I don't want to say goodbye for the last time, but I know I will have to some day.
Load More Replies... Masen Silas 4 years ago
Idc about my now dead mother but losing my dad is going to crush me. It will be a loss I will never get over
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Oh- yeah, no, my mom is in her 40s and I'm 12. Ima lose her a lot faster than you will. But she takes good care of herself, so hopefully she'll be good xd
The Cute Cat 4 years ago
The deceased is one to be remembered, not the one who needs to be mourned every time. They don't need us to be sad, nor wanted so. They will be happy if we can shine after the loosing. Just pray for them , may be?
#74
The Christmas after the peaceful Christmas during WW1 was one of the bloodiest days of the war
Sky Render 4 years ago
Literally state-mandated violence. Soldiers on either side of the conflict were ordered to fire excessive amounts of mortars to drown out any potential caroling, among other things. The European governments of the 1910s were absolute pigs, no human decency at all.
Load More Replies... #75
The youngest mother in history gave birth aged five years, seven months, and 21 days. Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in 1933. It's amazing that the human body could go through that, but so sad that she had to go through that and some pedo even thought it was a good idea to have sex with, at the time, a four year old.
Foxxy (The Original) 4 years ago (edited)
Did that young girl survive? I hope that pedo was taken care of the sick f**k.
labaguette🥖️🥖️ 4 years ago
The girl survived. Her son thought she was his sister until he was like 10 years old. And some people think the person who got her pregnant was her father.
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Jigsaw's Puzzle 4 years ago
That's.... sad and incredible at the same time. Sad that she got probably raped by someone but incredible that she survived.
Jessica Cifelli 4 years ago
She lived. She had a son. Also it was speculated that the pedo was actually her own father
Brandy Grote 4 years ago
She never ever said who the father was. The baby lived a long full life, so did she.
#76
I'm not going to find out what happened before the big bang, if there's life on other planets, if there's a reason for the existence of anything at all
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I always wonder that it was like too. Was it pure darkness, pure light, was there life, was it empty and barren? It's so weird
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago (edited)
Assuming there has to BE a reason for existence to begin with (says who?)
neil jagurdo 4 years ago
I agree but don't find this exactly sad, just very annoying! I'd settle for just knowing the next 200 years of history, that'd be enough!
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
When I was young, before I was skeptical, my image of heaven included all knowledge. Being able to know everything. Being able to know the statistics of your life too, like if you were the best at something, or did some things that no one else on earth ever did.
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
The reason!? To make life better any way you can. Fun fact I have over -800 votes for speaking this way
lara 4 years ago
The hubris of people to think that it is all about them. The entire freaking universe is all about them and there HAS TO BE A REASON FOR EXISTENCE. Sheesh.
Be Potato 4 years ago
To be honest, I am really curious though, because the universe is big and stuff.
Load More Replies... #77
With the African slave trade America has many black people now who are descendants from the original people who were imported as slaves, pretty much common knowledge. In Asia with places like Saudi Arabia who also bought slaves they do not have this as males were castrated and I'm sure it was called "cock and bull" where both testicles and penis would be removed, this was happening to male boys as young as 12 and the survival rate of the procedure was as low as 1 in every 5.
#78
Jake Paul was in my grade up till we graduated high school. No matter how I live my life he will always be more successful then me. He was a sh*t back then too. Not as depressing as some of the other stories here but it makes it hard to go to work very day.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
When you're obsessed with a failure like Jake Paul everything will be hard in your life.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Don't be ashamed or anything, he's a twat, you're probably MUCH more liked and a better person! and that my friend is way more profitable in my book.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
What comes up when you search "Garbage Tier Human".
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
I have no idea who Jake Paul is, but take solace in this: I bumped into the biggest rich-jerk jockish guy in my high school class a few years after graduation at my doctor's office. He was practically begging the receptionist to squeeze him in for a "lunch meeting" with my doctor to discuss new products (he was a pharmaceutical sales rep.) and she told him that no such appointment would be available. :) Fame and popularity are temporary for most people, the universe will balance things out.
#79
Some people, either through loneliness, age, or mental health, are so closed off from the outside world that they either can't or don't know how to take care of themselves until they die. Most of the time the only way for anyone to notice that something is wrong is either by accident or the smell. There is/was a Dutch guy who films the cleanup of those kinds of houses (he has a cleaning service specialized in those kinds of extreme cases). One woman's toilet backed up and she just did her business on the bathroom floor for months. In another case a guy had a square meter of space to sleep in, the rest was literal garbage halfway up the wall. He even made holes in the walls and floors to stuff it in.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
A friend of ours asked us to help her clean a dead aunts house out. There were literally stacks of newspapers from the floor up to the ceiling forming some kind of labyrinth. There were hundreds of bottles of all kinds of cleaning fluid, thousands of boxes of tissues, millions of car parts but she didn't have a car and didn't even know how to drive one. We spent 2 weeks clearing all the stuff out and must have filled dozens of dumpsters and containers. But surprisingly, there was not a mouse or rat in that house.
#80
No human alive today will ever see atmospheric CO2 levels below 400 ppm.
#81
Tomorrow isn't guaranteed.
Half-Jewish-Doggo 4 years ago
agh chills.. come on universe please let me spray paint my table and then blow us up after at least
#82
how there’s probably some dude scamming an old lady rn
Dillon Hughes 4 years ago
Yes yes many everyone scams, they do not care about gender race reglion, just money
#83
There's a rough 1:1 equivalent of pounds of CO2 produced to pounds of concrete produced in concrete production.
Nathan Pogorzala 4 years ago (edited)
But concrete reabsorbs 80% of the amount of CO2 that it generated during the limestone firing process. it initially accounts for 10% of all CO2 emissions but it eventually has a smaller footprint over time. They have created concrete where the binder is graphene or slag instead of cement. It needs to be scaled up and pourable but we are on the right track.
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
And why the f are we reading them? I don't know why i clicked! I'm sad now
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No one 4 years ago
Here's my conclusion-Humans are a vile and horrible species, we don't deserve animals and the Earth is a sad, lonely, depressing place.
Ben Smith 4 years ago
What a terrible way to think of this amazing gift you have.
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Revy The Gunslinger 4 years ago
These are sad but I don't often read these or the TIL ones, after finding that some of them can be false or based on inaccurate information. And I don't want to research every single one. It would be nice if sources could be included.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
"Humans are easily the cruelest animals on the planet. No wonder they call it the descent of man." - George Carlin
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Ever notice how so many people here continually ask "Why?", "Who is that?", "What is that?" and so on. Honestly folks, Google literally puts the world at your fingertips...
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
"When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal of earthly creatures." - Plato (427 - 347 BC/BCE) Greek philosopher
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Treessimontrees 4 years ago
When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans
bonnyatlast 4 years ago
They were also given small pix laced blankets on reservations. On purpose.
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Smutná_elfka 4 years ago
I learned this yesterday. Here in Czechia, during communist dictature in 1950's, pregnant women imprisoned for political reasons had no medical assistance during birth. Their newborns were also not given any medical care nor food. Many of the mothers were unable to produce milk due to starvation and most babies died in one year. Sometimes guards would take newborn from the mother and lock them in two separate cells, forcing the woman to listen to her child cry and die. The worst part is that it took 40 years for democracy to be restored so noone was punished for these crimes.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
It took 40 years for democracy to be restored in the Czech Republic, and in US it took only 4 years to almost kill democracy, and the American "patriots" are not done yet trying.
Load More Replies... Mohammad Azhaan 4 years ago
The 1943 Bengal Famine killed 3 million people. India was under British Colonialism at that time. Most of the food ration that should have gone to those affected, went to the British Army who already had a surplus amount of food. On being asked about it, Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive. Now, most economists argue that the famine didn't happen due to less rain but because of policies passed by Britain under Churchill.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago (edited)
As sad as it is, one thing is true: people are breeding like rabbits, even faster, in India and elsewhere, and humans never go extinct like poor animals do. Pope Francis told folks in South America, that they don't need to reproduce like rabbits; again, these are countries where women do not have rights to decide how many children they want to have; abortion is, of course, illegal even in cases of rape and incest.
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Troux 4 years ago
The saddest fact I know: The 'No Child Left Behind' act started a trend of providing funding to schools based on how well the students perform on standardized testing, in an effort to incentivize education. In reality, poor schools perform poorly, and therefore become poorer schools after funding cuts. Even worse, significantly low-testing individuals in decent schools can be forcibly transferred to another school in the middle of the year so that they don't count on either the sending or receiving school's annual roster for grading/funding purposes. The underperforming individual now has their year interrupted, loses contact with friends from their last school, and typically has to travel further to get to their new school...all of which contributes to them learning even less. The 'no child left behind' act has actually driven schools to deliberately and selectively leave children behind in order to get more funding.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
What are you saying, Troux that poor children are not smart as other children?
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
And why the f are we reading them? I don't know why i clicked! I'm sad now
Load More Replies... No one 4 years ago
Here's my conclusion-Humans are a vile and horrible species, we don't deserve animals and the Earth is a sad, lonely, depressing place.
Ben Smith 4 years ago
What a terrible way to think of this amazing gift you have.
Load More Replies... Revy The Gunslinger 4 years ago
These are sad but I don't often read these or the TIL ones, after finding that some of them can be false or based on inaccurate information. And I don't want to research every single one. It would be nice if sources could be included.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
"Humans are easily the cruelest animals on the planet. No wonder they call it the descent of man." - George Carlin
Load More Replies... Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Ever notice how so many people here continually ask "Why?", "Who is that?", "What is that?" and so on. Honestly folks, Google literally puts the world at your fingertips...
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
"When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal of earthly creatures." - Plato (427 - 347 BC/BCE) Greek philosopher
Load More Replies... Treessimontrees 4 years ago
When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans
bonnyatlast 4 years ago
They were also given small pix laced blankets on reservations. On purpose.
Load More Replies... Smutná_elfka 4 years ago
I learned this yesterday. Here in Czechia, during communist dictature in 1950's, pregnant women imprisoned for political reasons had no medical assistance during birth. Their newborns were also not given any medical care nor food. Many of the mothers were unable to produce milk due to starvation and most babies died in one year. Sometimes guards would take newborn from the mother and lock them in two separate cells, forcing the woman to listen to her child cry and die. The worst part is that it took 40 years for democracy to be restored so noone was punished for these crimes.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
It took 40 years for democracy to be restored in the Czech Republic, and in US it took only 4 years to almost kill democracy, and the American "patriots" are not done yet trying.
Load More Replies... Mohammad Azhaan 4 years ago
The 1943 Bengal Famine killed 3 million people. India was under British Colonialism at that time. Most of the food ration that should have gone to those affected, went to the British Army who already had a surplus amount of food. On being asked about it, Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive. Now, most economists argue that the famine didn't happen due to less rain but because of policies passed by Britain under Churchill.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago (edited)
As sad as it is, one thing is true: people are breeding like rabbits, even faster, in India and elsewhere, and humans never go extinct like poor animals do. Pope Francis told folks in South America, that they don't need to reproduce like rabbits; again, these are countries where women do not have rights to decide how many children they want to have; abortion is, of course, illegal even in cases of rape and incest.
Load More Replies... Troux 4 years ago
The saddest fact I know: The 'No Child Left Behind' act started a trend of providing funding to schools based on how well the students perform on standardized testing, in an effort to incentivize education. In reality, poor schools perform poorly, and therefore become poorer schools after funding cuts. Even worse, significantly low-testing individuals in decent schools can be forcibly transferred to another school in the middle of the year so that they don't count on either the sending or receiving school's annual roster for grading/funding purposes. The underperforming individual now has their year interrupted, loses contact with friends from their last school, and typically has to travel further to get to their new school...all of which contributes to them learning even less. The 'no child left behind' act has actually driven schools to deliberately and selectively leave children behind in order to get more funding.
Christina Uhlir 4 years ago
What are you saying, Troux that poor children are not smart as other children?
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