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Ozzy Osbourne has died

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610 points fantunes | 1 comments | 22 Jul 25 18:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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Flatcircle ◴[22 Jul 25 18:43 UTC] No.44651355[source]▶
Sang at his farewell concert, raised $190 million for childrens charity. Traveled to Switzerland and offed himself before parkinsons ravaged him.

An aristocratic death

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pelagicAustral ◴[22 Jul 25 18:54 UTC] No.44651490[source]▶
Doesn't Britain now have assisted dying? Why would he go to Switzerland for that?
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masfuerte ◴[22 Jul 25 19:00 UTC] No.44651552[source]▶
They passed a law introducing it in a few years' time. There's a statutory system of death panels that needs to be implemented.
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gdbsjjdn ◴[22 Jul 25 19:41 UTC] No.44652063[source]▶
I'm opposed to medically assisted dying but based on your use of "death panels" I'm assuming you come at it from a different perspective. How is a "death panel" different from businesses deciding who gets food or health treatment?
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masfuerte ◴[22 Jul 25 19:58 UTC] No.44652285[source]▶
I'm also opposed to assisted suicide. At the moment "death panels" are largely imaginary. If this law passes it will introduce actual death panels which dispense actual death as a "treatment". I don't really understand your question, probably because I'm not coming from where you think I'm coming from.
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1. EvanAnderson ◴[22 Jul 25 20:47 UTC] No.44652805[source]▶
In the US our "death panels" aren't imaginary. They're administered by insurance companies.