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This is a slight deviation from my usual 'happiness project' theme, but I came across this anecdote (from Mary Beard's latest post) while perusing my daily blogs, and it was too interesting not to share:
"Remember that in 1936 King George V's doctor famously gave him a fatal dose of morphine (somewhere between euthanasia and convenience killing). It was not only to relieve his suffering and give him a more dignified end, but also (as the doctor himself apparently admitted) to make sure that the death and succession happened early enough to be announced in the morning Times, not in the far less prestigious and proper evening papers."
"Remember that in 1936 King George V's doctor famously gave him a fatal dose of morphine (somewhere between euthanasia and convenience killing). It was not only to relieve his suffering and give him a more dignified end, but also (as the doctor himself apparently admitted) to make sure that the death and succession happened early enough to be announced in the morning Times, not in the far less prestigious and proper evening papers."