It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.

People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, not just being put into bed and fed.

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