By the way, a high school text here is a short novel about WW1 titled Generals
Die in their Beds, or some such, author I forget.
I mentioned to a student that when I was his age I began on WW1 reading with
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, and Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an
Infantry Officer.
The lad's Dad said Oh one of the opium trade Sassoons...
Hmm, Siegfried never mentioned this!
I have browsed a little on the web, and keep stumbling on antisemitic sites
which stress the link between the Sassoon clan's Jewishness and their rapacity
in China, late 19th century. Siegfried's Dad was estranged from the Big
Sassoons, it seems, but perhaps not from the money.
Oh I just want to be able to say the right brief thing to the lad's Dad.
- any advice?
Max
Quoting Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>:
> It's a fair take. And for those who don't get medical coverage
> through work, there's another form of chattel slavery--out-of-pocket
> cost. Until recently, when I came of age for govt insurance, which is
> still pretty costly, I payed $7K+ a year for coverage of something
> less than 75% of my rather minor medical costs. A family of four in
> NY is looking at something over 12K.
>
> Re: end-of-life: the standard opiate cocktail is known as a
> Brompton's Cocktail. In most of the world heroin is a major
> ingredient. In the States it's morphine, which is less effective. The
> (explicit) reason: heroin is more addictive, and one wouldn't want
> terminally-ill patients knocking over liquor stores in their final hours.
>
> Mark
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