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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 11:43 PM Original message |
Holbrooke's last words: joke or final plea for redemption? |
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sasha031 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think when people are at the end |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 11:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Did he think he was going to die or that he was going to have surgery? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:04 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. An aortic tear has an 80% mortality rate |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 05:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. And isn't that rate when you're *already in the hospital* when it happens? (nt) |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. It is a little lower when it happens in hospital |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-16-10 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. Dying people don't joke |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. or people who think they are close to dying. It has a very sobering effect. |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
7. hmm. A plea, or as the shits in State say, a joke. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 02:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. So am I. While I've heard a few jokes cracked close to the end, |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 03:21 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. It seems obvious to me that he knew he could die |
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moondust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
8. Ask the medical team that was there. n/t |
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the redcoat (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
9. I'm still sad that |
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Rhiannon12866 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 06:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. +1000... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 12:30 AM Response to Original message |
10. No idea. |
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hulka38 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Apparently the surgeon may have botched the surgery |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-17-10 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
18. Doesn't matter, the whole thing was made political when he said |
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