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  1. No One Dies Lying

    On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/09/no-o

  2. CW: Running for charity

    I've been a runner for 7 years! My next challenge is running the Cheltenham Half Marathon in September for Sue Ryder - the first time I've run a race in my home town since school sports day!

    Sponsor me at justgiving.com/page/matt-hodgk

    #RunCheltenham #Cheltenham #JustGiving #HalfMarathon #CharityRun #SueRyder #RunningUK #RunnersOfMastodon #FundraisingRun #SponsoredRun #EndOfLifeCare #PalliativeCare

  3. Last week "Quality of Life Research" published 7 papers:
    link.springer.com/journal/1113 #ISOQOL

    For example,

    effectiveness of verbal instruction vs video-based education for caregivers of head & neck #cancer patients
    rdcu.be/diEFn
    #India #PalliativeCare

    #SysReview of psychometric quality of instruments reporting #HRQL in survivors of critical illness
    link.springer.com/article/10.1 #COSMIN

    Estimating the disutility of relapse in #MultipleSclerosis
    link.springer.com/article/10.1 #EQ5D #AQoL #SF6D

  4. Ihr schaut doch auch manchmal Debatten live aus dem #Bundestag mit #Popcorn?

    Livestream: bundestag.de/parlamentsfernseh

    Es ist ein ernstes Verfahren um #Paragraf217, jedoch will der Zyniker in mir die Augen nicht verschließen: keiner der beiden Gesetzentwürfe ist ein guter Kompromiss, die Klarheit der #Sterbehilfe hat wenig gewonnen, die Suizidprävention gar nichts.

    Hinweise aus Expertengruppen wurden nur bedingt gehört, einen echten Dialog gab es nicht.

    #PalliativeCare #Sterben #Lebensende