JensenZ

Only if you have strong faith that your theories about afterlife are correct. Mostly it's just brainwashing from birth. If you can truly convince yourself that the end of your physical life is not the end of your existence, it's not a bad thing. I'm a bit envious of people who are so convinced. It doesn't work for me and I was deeply emersed in a Christian religion from birth until I started critical thinking as an adult.

Wither away and die, or planned suicide, that's the choice. The most interesting (or shocking) thing I learned is that most of the people using the sanctioned suicide website are very young. Why do I visit such websites? I believe in planned suicide and preparing for the time it becomes necessary. It's taking control over your destiny. I don't have any family to consider, so it's easy. If you have a family, it's a lot more complicated as you have other people to consider. About the OP's question: "when is life worth living?". LIve has no meaning in an absolute sense. You didn't have a choice in being born. Life only has the meaning you give it.

The disturbing part of this story is that the police gave the rider's name and nationality to the Phuket Express to publish. People ride the wrong way on one-streets all day long everywhere in Thailand, but I must say, his riding was a step too far as far as wrong way riding is concerned LOL. Normally they do it when there's plenty of clearance.

Ok then, you're also a doctor, NOT? My apologies - I thought you were my Google assistant, posting links to irrelevant articles. So you can't find any articles to prove ice cream, milk chocolate and other sugar laden foods are healthy? I'm not talking about eating healthy chocolate and I thought that might be obvious by my reference to sugar. I'm talking about getting a heart attack as soon as possible...

You should visit any local supermarket, local store or 7Eleven. Milk and dairy products are sold in huge quantity in Thailand. There's no way that 90% are lactose intolerant. I would guess the number is quite low.

Are you a doctor? I'm not a doctor, but doctors usually know very little about health and spend their careers dispensing drugs. Cocao beans might be healthy, but not all the sugar and other cr*p that comes with most chocolate confectionery. Low sugar dark chocolate is the way to go for a healthier chocolate, not the sweet milk chocolate that most people, myself included, enjoy. Apart from chocolate, I also mentioned ice cream and other sugar laden foods. Can you find an article proving they are healthy?

Sure, load the burger with wonderful European cheeses and charge 2000 for the burger. Unfortunately all these wonderful cheeses you speak of are far too expensive in Thailand.

You won't get a heart attack from that. It's just a pervasive paranoia people have about consuming fat and cholesterol. If you want a faster heart attack, eat lots of chocolate. ice cream and other sugar laden foods.

Speak for yourself. Boredom is a state of mind. I never get bored staying at home. I would definitely not get bored on a 3-year cruise - it would be amazing if I could afford to throw $90k at it.

If you overthrow an elected government by force (coup), you should be in prison. Let's see if he pays a price for what he did. The only way Thailand can move forward as a true Democracy is after they start putting these people where they belong.

You're right, I should have given him 10 stars. You're either brand new, or walk around with blinders on... plenty of such people on here.

This is the truth - 5 gold stars!!!

Come on now - you don't need to possess to go down in Thailand. The police, if they so wish, can plant drugs. How they treat people for drug possession is everyone's concern. The police ARE the law in Thailand. Back in 2016 the police, and military turned up at my house to do a full search. There was no search warrant, as under military rule a warrant was not required if military were present. Why did this happen? All it took was nasty Thai neighbour with a story. I've never touched drugs in my life. I don't even drink alcohol. How easy would it be for them to plant drugs if they so wished? A lot of naive people on here think there are fair laws in Thailand. It's a country where rules and laws are made and enforced on the fly. It's a country where the military take control and draft new laws as they wish. If this story is half as bad as it sounds, we should all be concerned.

If you'd read the full report - he is already back in NZ rebuilding his life.

They must have heard you as u-turns are quite some distance apart. I noticed today someone had made a small cut in the barrier to allow motorcycles to u-turn. Stopping in the middle of the road to do that u-turn is not particularly safe though, even if you are an expert rider LOL. Good luck to the brave motorcyclists that attempt it.

She won't be or probably wasn't the first accident caused by this median strip. Taking your suggestion further, maybe most people shouldn't drive. Nevermind building safely constructed roads - always blame the drivers. They can put barriers anywhere they please because accidents are always the driver's fault - good drivers see everything and never have accidents. In the real world, a great deal of thought and planning goes into building safe roads. They need to be as idiot-proof as possible. In this case, the main problem is that the barrier causes extreme inconvenience where much traffic has to spend a lot longer on the road, trying to find a place to make a U-turn. By increasing time on the road, it increases traffic volume, apart from causing a lot of congestion in areas where u-turns are permitted. The other day I had to ride an extra kilometer or more to get back to a shop I was looking for which I had passed... which took me to the opposite side of the road from the shop I wanted to visit... and then I had to park and cross the road on foot. If not, I would have had to travel a lot further again to find the next u-turn. This will be more danger for predestrians, as there will be a lot more of them crossing the road to visit the shops. This photo is a perfect illustration of how dangerous crossing the road on foot will be. Those ladies on high heels better take care - sandwiched between opposing traffic on a narrow strip.

It's nothing like the "in the West". Here, to visit the parents after supporting a women for a month is an invitation to treat her family. They probably have some needs she expects the new bf to take care of. She's testing him out to see how generous he will be.

I'm trying to convince my wife not to be afraid of using escalators and travelators. If you consider how many serious accidents have occured on these world-wide, and specifically in Thailand vs how many people have ridden them, they are still one of if not the safest forms of transport.

There are many ways to understand it as there are many conflicting reports. Thanks for #3 - I had not read that one yet.

I'm well aware of it - I drive there every day. It's not permanent - I'll put money on it.

Want a bet? They will be removed for 2 good reasons: 1. They are dangerous. 2. They interfere with local business and many retailers have objected to them.

Irrespective of what you may think of the poor student's driving skills, those blocks placed in the center of Thepprassit Road to prevent u-turns are dangerous and my prediction is they will be removed at some point. I was discussing them with a retailer there last week and mentioned it would cause a lot of accidents. At the very least, the barrier should have been lit up at night. In this case she really does have a good point and council should share responsibility.

Do you think they just started doing this? They have been removing criminals and overstayers forever. They just decided they need to remind us that they are doing their job and they can justify their salaries. "Tighen the visa rules!". What a great idea - so they can reduce tourism just when they are starting to recover after covid.

There were a lot of different conclusions possible from all the reports I've read: 1. She had lacerations on her lower leg 2. Her leg was amputated by the travelator plates 3. Her leg was amputated by the rescue team 4. Bumrungrad said they could reattach the leg, suggesting her lower leg was still in serviceable condition. I'm no expert, but it would be difficult to believe she was being taught to walk again in most of these scenarios. If she was a candidate for a prosthetic leg, the amputation wound would take at least 6 weeks to heal. If her leg was reattached, it would take months and that would only be possible if the lower leg was still in good condition after they amputated it.

The way the story is told here it suggests that the moving steps of the travelator amputated her leg and that it was not amputated by rescuers. The story continues about her recovery and that she is learning to walk again: "mentioned that she was currently undergoing physical rehabilitation, learning to walk again with a walker". Would a person who just had a leg amputated above the knee be undergoing physical rehab in one week and learning to walk again? It was mentioned in one report that the hospital would be attempting to reattach her leg. Maybe she didn't lose her leg at all. The stories don't add up.