Fuelling this complexity are families who prefer the patient not to be told for fear of torpedoing hope and reducing the quality of time remaining. Conversely, patients may want to know themselves, but do not want to distress their loved ones with this knowledge. Central to these scenarios is whether accurate prognostication at end of life is actually possible.
Providing a meaningful survival time to patients is often genuinely challenging for doctors. Accuracy declines further the longer the patient is expected to live. A number of studies indicate clinicians tend to be over-optimistic in predicting survival times.
This is one of the reasons some doctors are reluctant to attempt to predict survival time at end of life. This mindset views meaningful discussions of prognosis as harmful, as it may cause the patient to lose hope and give up the fight.
It underpins those not uncommon cases when a family requests the clinician not to disclose a prognosis or a diagnosis to their dying relative. Unfortunately, it may also shut down meaningful end-of-life discussion and planning and result in harm, including to the grieving who remain. When patients do not want to know their prognosis, this should be respected. Im new at buying metals.
Ive have collected comic books and sportscards my whole life. Im selling everything now except some of my favorites and buying metals with the profits. Maybe melt it down into bars or something. Or would I be better off just scrapping the copper and buying silver. All commodities will increase including copper but silver will proportionately increase much greater than copper and is more compact and easier to store. That will be like hoarding paper dollars.
Hello, I have a question, can you give me any ideas of alternate forms of personal protection besides a gun? Hi Sally, hope this will be of some help. It does not matter what State or City you live in You have the right to own a gun. And I have never known of a pawn shop that did not have an FFL in the store. The paperwork takes about 15 min. And if that is not fast enough then you can buy one from indinidual out of the newspaper or go to a gun and knife show, you give them the money, and you will get the gun right then.
And a taser is only good if you have batteries, and the fact that you are on this site lets me know that you are aware that we could be faced with the fact that one day we may not have the privilege of going into a store and buying what ever you want, like batteries. But on the other hand a gun can be left loaded for twenty years or more and will still get the job done provided it is a revolver and not an automatic. If you decide to get a gun you might want to look at the Judge or Public Defender made by Taurus.
Best way to buy a gun is at a flea market, craigslist or any other nontracable transaction. Just sayin…. An Internet podcast called the Hooter and Greenway Show wants to interview you on a live show via Skype. The cast of Hooter and Greenway are all Ron Paul supporters and Obama haters and desperately want you to voice your opinions. Please contact us! I loved your videos on silver hard currency and the article on debasement of currency.
Could you write an addition to your article or at least a blog post on how you would start purchasing silver with a limited budget? I saw where a guy was bottling wine, storing it under ground, pretty cool setup. His theory is sure silver is nice and all but where you going to spend it? Who will give you what for it?
But with a bottle of fine wine, he has an instant bartering commodity. You think a bottle of wine is good for bartering? Try bartering with silver. It is infinitely better, especially during an emergency or break down of society.
Furthermore you can put all your savings into silver. You would be very foolish to put even a small amount of your savings in wine. Use your head. The guy on Doomsday Preppers sure had a good opinion comparing wine and other food stuffs to silver. Imagine being stranded on a deserted island with 10 tons of silver or 10 tons of food and wine. Silver certainly will retain a value, but for what? I see your point as the US Dollar will soon collapse, that almost seems direct on target.
Being stranded on a dessert island is not a scenario that I envision. In fact, there is no scenario that I envision in which there will not be other people, some of whom I might want to barter with for things I need.
Historically, silver and gold have been the most preferred things to barter with. Every indication is that this will continue to be the case. Go ahead and put your savings into wine rather than real money. All that will get you is drunk, poor and in the end starvation. But it is so far a free country. The strong and the intelligent will survive. The fool is easily separated from his money. Survival Doc, thank you for putting together a step-by-step, common sense course on being prepared.
Most sites have bits and pieces or specialize in expensive gear or bunkers, not a good place to start for most. Thank You! Like you, I am a Christian, Ron Paul Supporter, care for our environment, and attempt to understand History and the mistakes that past generations have made. The ruling elite are playing the two sides in a real life drama, just like your favorite TV show hero vs.
Once you accept this conclusion, everything you see in the news makes sense. Listen to the media and politicians explain WHY these decisions are made…confused yet? Yeah…now remove pop culture, news and TV influences and think about human nature and the experiences YOU have had with the people that you live and work with directly.
Take a course on logic and think for yourself! As Survival Doc demonstrates, there are people that care for both personal liberty and are good stewards of the environment…. We have turned into apathetic, faithless, hedonistic blobs obesity, sex crimes, our obsession with money vs. Our children are setting up to be more spoiled and lazy than we are! Put your probability hats on, and use some common sense people!
One foot in front of the other, One rational thought in front of the other, One encouraging, generous gesture to your neighbor, One piece of wisdom to a child, One letter to your congressman,. Survival Doc is providing us with a roadmap, giving us tools and leading by example….. Thank you for your kind comments and for your words of wisdom. Keep up the good fight in the fight for our republic!
Look under shop — paper targets to find them now. It appears as if some of the written text within your content are running off the screen. Can someone else please provide feedback and let me know if this is happening to them too? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
You are commenting using your Facebook account. And it's not just the wealthy who can or do prepare for disaster -- in researching this, I came across preppers from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds in the habit of setting a few supplies aside on a regular basis. Read More.
All of these groups challenged the televised norm. But two concepts interested me most. One was making this subject relatable by exploring the practical aspects of prepping and taking preppers out of the realm of ridicule.
And the second was exploring the psychology around prepping to understand it for myself. It's very easy -- and I believe comforting -- to paint prepping as absurd. Then we don't have to be scared about the concerns preppers raise.
But, after the last year especially, the tables have turned on the rest of us a bit. Preppers are having a kind of "I told you so" moment, while the rest of us are starting to feel foolish and misguided in not having prepared for the tumult. There's no shortage of concerning news, whether it's a continuing pandemic; floods; wildfires; droughts; heat waves the list of environmental catastrophes is seemingly endless ; the tenor of public debate; social unrest; an increasing wealth gap; and the faltering of the American middle class.
The list goes on -- and it's the kind of thing that can keep you up at night. I began to see the film as an opportunity to explore the anxieties that every one of us feels when we skim the headlines or doomscroll through our social media feeds. That sense of things coming to a head, an inflection point where our world seems it might be going from bad to worse.
I decided to dive in with the motivations of two groups of people. The first are those who have not only purchased "doomsday bunkers" but have already moved into them, living their lives mostly off the grid in windowless former missile silos in South Dakota. The second group focuses on everything but a bunker -- all the practices and skills that can prepare you for the scenarios scientists and economists predict are most likely to occur in the near future.
Though a bit less eye-popping than living in a former missile silo, these kinds of skills can include gardening for edible plants or setting aside an emergency fund.
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