Never heard of him before.

I mean, we're DU, we can toe the line. So step right up, make a heel of yourself, sell your sole, etc., etc., etc.

to boot.


rocktivity

before we end up re-enacting the "One-Legged Man auditions for the role of Tarzan" sketch from BEYOND THE FRINGE.

Of course.

tells me, once again, that the Daily Mail is fishwrap

Rather sad, really: it could happen here. Probably already has.

Spouse of "Krone": My Husband felt so worthless

"I'm sorry, but there was no other way out for me." So said the long-term unemployed man Hans-Peter U. (56) of the Austrian (town of) Mitterlabill, who early Monday amputated his left leg eleven centimeters above the ankle. He did it, according to the Styrian, because he feared a medical examination on the third of April that had been required by the job market service. "He wants to work, but can't get anything suitable," laments his wife Monika: "My husband felt so worthless."

On Monday afternoon Monika U. was allowed to visit her husband for the first time since his admission on Tuesday to the psychiatric department of the district hospital in Graz: "He apologized to me and said how sorry he was about it all. And he intentionally did it at a time when we - the son and I - were out of the house."

Teetotaler numbed himself with schnapps

The Styrian cut his left lower shank off with an electrical saw (picture) in the heating room and threw it in an oven (picture 2), in order to preclude the possibility that it might be reattached. Before he did the unthinkable, the 56 year-old, who shunned alcohol, numbed himself with schnapps and readied crutches so that he could schlep himself into the garage.

As Monika U. came home, a medivac helicopter stood in front of the house: "At first, I and my son Manuel had no idea what had happened. Only now do I know that my husband had great fear over this examination. Twice he wanted to collect a pension, and twice it was denied. He had it with the discs in his back and the shoulder. He wants to work. But the job he envisioned doesn't exist."


"Papa enjoyed working in the great outdoors"

"Papa was once responsible for a golf course," remembers Petra L. (34), a daughter who lives in Graz: "He enjoyed working in the great outdoors and was genuinely happy. He had several such jobs, but they were all short-term - for a duration of three to six months."

Unknown to his wife and daughter, Hans Peter U., who quietly celebrated his birthday on the 21st of March, had cabin fever. "'At my age, no one needs me,' he said, according to his wife, "that bothered him a lot. But he didn't talk about his troubles much. He repressed them until I think, something in him exploded."

"We'll manage this together"
Hans- Peter U. has been intermittently unemployed since 2003. He struggled with depression, and has been under psychological care several times, including eleven days in the Sigmund Freud Clinic in Graz. How it will go from her, no one knows. "The family stands behind him adamantly, no matter what," says Monika in her 36th year of marriage. "We'll manage this together."

....the poor man obviously has mental problems....I still don't understand how he kept from bleeding to death....

but I suppose he could have looked up something on "field surgery" and managed. That or a tourniquet. Those are effective if you don't care about what's at the other end.

I just had the experience of providing care for an elderly woman whose goal in life was to die. She wanted to die in the worst way. She finally succeeded last week. And it was pretty bad, not what one would call a good death.

I watched her reject medical advice, offers of assistance, play games with her eating, sleeping and medications, but there was no way I could do anything about it, nor could her family. She needed assisted living, but categorically refused it. I watched her health decline like an avalanche, and when I suggested hospice, you would have thought I'd offered to off her myself. She was dead 12 days later, without it.

some people just can't do things in moderation. LOL

I hope he gets the help he needs.

So much for UI helping him get "back on his feet".


But seriously, I hope he gets the help he needs, so he can get going again and pull himself up by his boot strap ...

They don't use feet there.

when dancing.

that's belief in ones' prniciples.

to collect $10k in insurance from a faked motorcycle accident. At the time, it was the most grotesque thing I'd ever read. Still pretty sick. And incomparably stupid.