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It's official...Ireland has it backwards

  • 16-07-2010 8:32am
    #1
    Shea O'Meara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭


    Ireland has been ranked as the fourth best place in the world to die in a new quality-of-death survey carried out by the Economist Intelligence Unit......

    Ireland was ahead of countries such as the US, Norway, Luxembourg and Canada, but fell to 17th place for the quality of the general healthcare environment.

    http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/18236703/?view=Standard

    So we are still spending the money, just not when and where it's needed?
    Looks like we've a habit of 'after the horse has bolted.'


Comments

  • #2
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    what the hell is "quality of death" ???


  • #3
    Shea O'Meara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Shea O'Meara


    froog wrote: »
    what the hell is "quality of death" ???
    Have you seen 'Solvent Green'?:D


  • #4
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I never heard this phrase before.

    Seems we must have a good hospice network, that would be one factor.
    And a local priest or chaplain for everyone who wants that.


  • #5
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    froog wrote: »
    what the hell is "quality of death" ???

    As I get older, I am coming to the view that the most important quality issue is the opportunity to postpone it indefinitely.


  • #6
    Brendog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    Shea O'Meara wrote: »
    Have you seen 'Solvent Green'?:D

    I think you mean "Soylent Green".............IS PEOPLE?!?!?!






    I think the best place to die is in fookin' Bruges


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  • #7
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    As I get older, I am coming to the view that the most important quality issue is the opportunity to postpone it indefinitely.

    As I live endure through this country, watching con-men prosper while ordinary people battle to survive, I'm of the opposite view.

    Whatever comes next* has to be better than this.

    * Even if that's nothing


  • #8
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    "We're saved!
    Seagulls are only found near land! They only come out to sea to
    die!"

    "Swaaaaak! (Splash)"


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