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Onionman said:
Oh, that's a shame - I didn't know. However, in good news, once you're 55 you can donate your brain to the UK dementia brain tissue bank in Bristol.

When people die with dementia, relatives offer their brains for research. However researchers badly need healthy brains for comparison research and they are desperately short.

All you do is sign up and do a memory test by phone every five years. Then, when you croak it they pop along and have away with your brain to help people who will live after you. How wonderful is that? Why have it burned or buried when you're gone when it could help to rid the world of the scourge of dementia?

To get on the register you have to call them on 0117 414 7821. They send a form that you fill in and drop off at your GP.*

Once you've shuffled off this mortal coil your brain is just going to disappear and you're going to have no further use for it so this is a noble and painless thing to do to help improve lives.

Vin


* I may have blotted my copybook when, on being told my brain would be treated with care and reverence, I said it wouldn't bother me if they dropped it in a blender as I wouldn't be using it at the time - something of a shocked silence then a rather nervous laugh from the lovely doctor who runs the tissue bank.
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Thanks for the laugh and will ring them :)
 
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Onionman said:
Oh, that's a shame - I didn't know. However, in good news, once you're 55 you can donate your brain to the UK dementia brain tissue bank in Bristol.

When people die with dementia, relatives offer their brains for research. However researchers badly need healthy brains for comparison research and they are desperately short.

All you do is sign up and do a memory test by phone every five years. Then, when you croak it they pop along and have away with your brain to help people who will live after you. How wonderful is that? Why have it burned or buried when you're gone when it could help to rid the world of the scourge of dementia?

To get on the register you have to call them on 0117 414 7821. They send a form that you fill in and drop off at your GP.*

Once you've shuffled off this mortal coil your brain is just going to disappear and you're going to have no further use for it so this is a noble and painless thing to do to help improve lives.

Vin


* I may have blotted my copybook when, on being told my brain would be treated with care and reverence, I said it wouldn't bother me if they dropped it in a blender as I wouldn't be using it at the time - something of a shocked silence then a rather nervous laugh from the lovely doctor who runs the tissue bank.
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My Dad didn't have dementia but he did donate his body for medical research. He died three months short of his 100th birthday. I always assumed that his body was in the medical school and that I passed it on my way to St Mary's (may be wrong about that but it's what I thought), so you can imagine how immensely proud I felt when I walked past the building. After about three years we got his ashes back. He was an immensely proud Hampshire man, he took me to the Dell first time when I was about six years old to see Stanley Matthews and I last took him to St. Mary's when he was ninety six.

He only gave me two bits of advice
(i)" Never go North of Southampton" and
(I) (When I left home at 15 to join the forces) "Look out for loose women outside the camp gates"
 
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milton archer said:
He only gave me two bits of advice
(i)" Never go North of Southampton" and
(I) (When I left home at 15 to join the forces) "Look out for loose women outside the camp gates"
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That's a hell of a long innings... And a good reason to be proud.

Can I just check whether the last bit of advice meant you should be avoiding them or if it was guidance as to where to find them?

Vin
 
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StJabbo1 said:
Sandals on good news from the Granuaid.
https://www.theguardian.com/society...t-disease-vaccines-ready-by-end-of-the-decade
The pandemic accelerated advances in vaccine technology, opening up possibilities for combating array of diseases.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...ccines-golden-era-pandemic-techology-diseases
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Can but hope that endemic diseases such as tick borne encephalitis, malaria and dengue fever are also being researched and affordable vaccines will be available to all.
 
When you've read the news and you're left thinking everything's becoming worse, remember that the statistics don't agree. Animated graph, worth a click and a few watches.

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