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Healthy Retired Nurse Ends Her Life in Swiss Suicide Clinic Because Old Age ‘Is Awful’

Posted: 04 Aug 2015 01:34 AM PDT

A 75-year-old Englishwoman shocked the world by opting for euthanasia over natural death from old age. In spite of being in good health, the retired nurse decided to end her life because she could not bear the thought of growing old and frail. Before her death, Gill Pharaoh stated that she did not want to burden her children with the responsibility of caring for her.

Pharaoh specialised in nursing the elderly – she apparently developed a distaste for the life of the elderly, having witnessed it in close quarters. Towards the end of her life, she had checked into a Swiss suicide clinic, and in her last interview, she revealed how she had lost interest in life. She no longer enjoyed gardening, dinner parties, and was suffering from tinnitus.

"I do not think old age is fun," she had said. "I have just gone over the hill now. It is not going to start getting better. I have looked after people who are old, on and off, all my life. I have always said, 'I am not getting old. I do not think old age is fun.'"

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Chinese Man Builds ‘World’s Longest Seesaw’ to Play with Son Living 730 Miles Away

Posted: 04 Aug 2015 01:09 AM PDT

30-year-old Liu Haibin is being hailed as the world's coolest dad after he built an innovative seesaw that allows him to play with his toddler son who lives with his mother over 700 miles away.

While Chinese media is referring to Liu’s invention as the 'world's longest seesaw', in reality, it consists of two identical seesaws equipped with motion sensors. One is placed in Tengzhou City, where Liu’s wife and eight-month-old son live. The other is with Liu, who lives in Xiamen City, 730 miles away. Through wireless internet signals and remote synchronization sensor data, the seesaws are perfectly synchronized. HD monitors on both seesaws enable father and son to see and interact with each other as they play.

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Snowden 2.0: Japanese Journalist Has Been Living in Moscow Airport for Two Months

Posted: 04 Aug 2015 12:30 AM PDT

Japanese journalist Tetsuya Abo is pulling a Snowden – he's been living in the transit section of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport for over two months now. The 36-year-old said in an interview that his stay is politically motivated – he does not want to go back home, and is requesting Russian citizenship instead.

"It has become impossible to tell the truth in Japan," he told the media. "There is no such thing as truth in journalism, because you cannot write the truth because of a law of secrecy. The Japanese think that they live the right way and therefore do not see any problems, but you need to pay very close attention to see that something is wrong."

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