#dying in new Brunswick

[iamacoolbug]

fuckin love it when media is about not leaving your hometown or wanting to leave your hometown when you can't or not wanting to leave your hometown when you have to or inevitably returning to your hometown to find everything is the same but yet different

[raytorotits]

they say it doesn't happen that often

[thursdaybandcomments]

[cooking-with-hailstones]

Y'all I've been laughing at this all day

Imagine tweeting the premier of your province to demand slow dances for your rizzless nephew 💀💀💀

Anyways tag yourself I'm hostile and homosexual.

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

im gonna make a mixtape soon do u guys have any song recs

[lithiumhydroxide]

Sooooo u say it doesnt happen that oftennn….BUT its happening right now 🤪

[parisinflamesmp3]

me: two redbull and an adderall for breakfast is the most important meal of the day

my guardian angel (currently taking the form of geoff "thursday" rickly to try and get me to listen to him): do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less feeling like ‘Dying In New Brunswick'?

[justicefor]

Do you know this man?

His body was found in 1997 in Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha County, Wisconsin.

He had:

Black hair and a grey mustache.

Was 39 to 60 years old.

Was about 5'11.

Wore a White T shirt (appeared dyed red), grey Jordache jeans, one heavy sock on left foot

Had distinctive tattoos of a bear claw and a dragonfly (pictured above).

Was White, Hispanic, Native American or a mix of those three.

May have been from Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and southern regions of the Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec). There is also a slight possibility for a region of origin in Colorado, New Brunswick (Canada), and New Foundland (Canada).

The DNA Doe Project is also raising money to try to identify him through gemetic geneaology.

If you think you know who this man is, please contact the Kenosha County Medical Examiner at 262-653-3869.

[thursdaybracket]

THURSDAY BRACKET

This is a tournament to decide what Tumblr’s favourite Thursday song is. Each round will run for one day, and this post will be updated with links to polls and the results from each round. The tournament was seeded using Spotify stream data, which is not entirely accurate but gives a rough idea of popularity. There will also be a smaller preliminary round before the first one to keep the numbers even. Have fun!

Final

Understanding In A Car Crash vs For The Workforce, Drowning

Round 5

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Signals Over The Air

Jet Black New Year vs For The Workforce, Drowning

Round 4

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Tomorrow I'll Be You

Jet Black New Year vs Counting 5-4-3-2-1

Signals Over The Air vs Cross Out The Eyes

Standing On The Edge Of Summer vs For The Workforce, Drowning

Round 3

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Dying in New Brunswick

Paris In Flames vs Tomorrow I'll Be You

War All The Time vs Jet Black New Year

Counting 5-4-3-2-1 vs Resuscitation of a Dead Man

Signals Over The Air vs The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control)

Cross Out The Eyes vs How Long Is The Night?

Standing On The Edge Of Summer vs Division St.

For The Workforce, Drowning vs Past and Future Ruins

Round 2

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Autumn Leaves Revisited

Dying in New Brunswick vs I Am The Killer

Paris In Flames vs Turnpike Divides

Autobiography Of A Nation vs Tomorrow I'll Be You

War All The Time vs Sugar In The Sacrament

Between Rupture And Rapture vs Jet Black New Year

Counting 5-4-3-2-1 vs Into The Blinding Light

Empty Glass vs Resuscitation of a Dead Man

Signals Over The Air vs Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart

The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control) vs A Darker Forest

Cross Out The Eyes vs Fast to the End

Running From The Rain vs How Long Is The Night?

Standing On The Edge Of Summer vs The Lovesong Writer

Division St. vs Asleep In The Chapel

For The Workforce, Drowning vs M. Shepard

Past and Future Ruins vs Steps Ascending

Round 1

Understanding In A Car Crash vs Where the Circle Ends

Autumn Leaves Revisited vs No Answers

At This Velocity vs Dying in New Brunswick

I Am The Killer vs Love Has Led Us Astray

Paris In Flames vs Open Quotes

This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb vs Turnpike Divides

Autobiography Of A Nation vs You Were The Cancer

Tomorrow I'll Be You vs Sparks Against the Sun

War All The Time vs Stay True

Sugar In The Sacrament vs We Will Overcome

Between Rupture And Rapture vs As He Climbed The Dark Mountain

Jet Black New Year vs Ian Curtis

Counting 5-4-3-2-1 vs Fake Nostalgia

Marches And Maneuvers vs Into The Blinding Light

Concealer vs Empty Glass

Wind Up vs Resuscitation of a Dead Man

Signals Over The Air vs Time's Arrow

This Side of Brightness vs Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart

The Other Side Of The Crash/Over And Out (Of Control) vs Ladies And Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure

A0001/I1100 vs A Darker Forest

Cross Out The Eyes vs Circuits of Fever

Fast to the End vs Porcelain

Running From The Rain vs Introduction

How Long Is The Night? vs Last Call

Standing On The Edge Of Summer vs Even The Sand Is Made Of Seashells

The Lovesong Writer vs Telegraph Avenue Kiss

Division St. vs Beyond The Visible Spectrum

Asleep In The Chapel vs Friends In The Armed Forces

For The Workforce, Drowning vs A Gun in the First Act

M. Shepard vs Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, A Shower Of White (The Light)

A Hole In The World vs Past and Future Ruins

Steps Ascending vs Streaks in the Sky

Preliminary round

Where the Circle Ends vs The Dotted Line

Open Quotes vs Common Existence

You Were The Cancer vs The Worst Vow

Stay True vs Voices On A String

In-Transmission vs Fake Nostalgia

Empty Glass vs The Roar Of Far Off Black Jets

Time’s Arrow vs Millimeter

Circuits of Fever vs Subway Funeral

Even The Sand Is Made Of Seashells vs Unintended Long Term Effects

A Gun in the First Act vs Dead Songs

Past and Future Ruins vs Mass as Shadows

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients among the four countries studied that offer this practice.

The report is the first-ever review of the growing use of this new practice around the world. The review was conducted in 2021 and the results were formally published in December 2022.

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“We saw everyone is working in different directions. And then we said ‘OK, well, let's start an international (discussion) of all the countries involved,’” said Dr. Johannes Mulder, a physician and MAID provider in Zwolle, Netherlands, in an interview with CTV News.

Data collected for the paper shows that in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain, combined, 286 assisted-death recipients provide lifesaving organs for transplant to 837 patients in the years up to and including 2021.

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Doctors in Canada, where medical assistance in dying (MAID) was decriminalized in 2016, performed almost half of the world’s organ transplants after MAID for that period (136), according to the publication.

Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information confirms this new source of transplant organs accounted accounts for six per cent of all transplants from deceased donors in Canada in 2021. Some transplants, like those for kidneys and livers, can be done with patients who are alive.

“I was rather proud that Canada has done so well in terms of organ donation by MAID patients,” said Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, in an interview with CTV News.

With more than 4,000 Canadians waiting for organ transplants, some of whom are dying, he says Canada’s numbers show a strong move to turn death into a win-win.

“So I say, 'Good on us.' It’s a wonderful opportunity for someone facing death to make something significant out of the end of their life,” said Schafer.

PATIENT-DRIVEN TREND

The international review on this new practice has been overwhelmingly driven by patients who are suffering from irreversible degenerative diseases, like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson’s.

“If this body has deserted me, I could do something good,” is how Mulder says patients frame their decision.

Canadian ALS patient Sharron Demchuk donated her kidneys and lungs after her medically assisted death in September of 2021. Her family says she herself pushed her doctors to consider a way she could help people after she died, becoming the first in New Brunswick to do so.

“She kept doing follow-ups, kept pushing and even though she wasn’t able to speak, she would make notes for my dad. ‘Here’s what I want you to ask them. Here’s what I want you to say,’” her daughter, Darlene Demchuk, told CTV News last year.

One of the goals of the international report, says Mulder, was to share information openly on how countries are managing this controversial and evolving new practice, including the tricky ethical and logistical issues of consent from vulnerable patients.

“What should you do, or what should what shouldn't you do? And how to keep the whole project completely voluntary,” he said of some of the concerns, noting that patients should never be pressured to choose MAID to increase the availability of donor organs.

That is a worry shared by Trudo Lemmens, a professor in health law and policy at the University of Toronto.

He points to statistics showing more than 35 per cent of Canadians who died by MAID in 2021 felt they were "a burden on family, friends or caregivers” according to a Health Canada report.

“I am concerned that people who struggle with a lack of self-esteem and self-worth may be pushed to see this as an opportunity to mean something,” said Lemmens in an email comment to CTV News.

With other countries like Australia eyeing medical assistance in dying along with organ donations, Mulder says public trust in this new medical practice must be developed and maintained.

“That’s why guidelines are necessary and should also be strict,”’ the doctor said.

[stigmatamama]

I'm writing you a second time to let you know, nothing here has changed.

[geoffrard]

please tell me more about this geoff/gerard proof 👀

anon how much time do u have

thought about being jokingly tinhatting with my response to this but i dont actually think they full fucked or whatever. so instead i'm just gonna dump several thousand words of an earnest attempt to outline why geoff and gerard deserve the same treatment received by other legendary canonical friendships like bert & gerard, mikey & pete, etc etc

also i caught the riot fest covid so idk how comprensible i will be. and idk how much sense some of this will make if you don't already have, like, rudimentary knowledge about geoff rickly's start in the hardcore scene in new brunswick, nj, so obligatory plug of the thursday primer that me and nic @raytorosaurus put out a while ago.

but tl;dr, geoff rickly and gerard way were drawn to each other literally from the beginning. since then, neither have left the other's orbit. they are legit cosmically connected narrative foils who could have been each other's closest confidant but never have been more than incredibly meaningful people to the other due to instance after instance of wrong place, wrong time.

i'll do my best to sum up some of the most poignant moments in their over twenty-year-long friendship, but nic and i are drafting several other posts that more diligently delineate the connections between thursday and mcr in their overlapping, mirrored careers and similarities/divergences in their goals/approaches as musicians.

so anyway despite what you might have assumed from the story that goes around where geoff heard gerard and mikey (badly) playing vampires at the eyeball house and wasn't impressed, i believe that at that point they'd already been friends for a while.

this is how gerard recalls the moment he met geoff:

Way: I remember it super vividly. Do you remember? I was walking out of the record shop that Alex [Saavedra, Eyeball Records] worked at on Kearny Avenue and you were standing against a wall wearing a black t-shirt. You were rail skinny and you looked like you were dying and you were so pale with this jet black hair. Rickly: My vegan lifestyle was not agreeing with me. Way: It looked like the sun was killing him. [long pause] And I thought he was super cool. (from their interview with vice in 2015)

long pause and i thought he was super cool.....like....

this is what geoff looked like back then btw. im guessing it was around 2000/early 2001 that they met since thats the outer limits of geoff's black hair goth days

(source)

gerard designed shirts for bands in the scene, including this one for thursday, probably done around 2001 when the dove became the main symbol associated with thursday. at this point mikey was a regular at the eyeball house but gerard was still hiding away in his house, but would always talk about his brother.

Geoff: "I knew Mikey from parties at the eyeball house. I liked Mikey a lot, and he was like, 'you're gonna love my brother Gee (he called him Gee all the time), Gerard, he's the best comic book artist, he's always at home, just working on comic books.' So I was like yeah, I wanna meet this kid, you know, I wanna make comic books with him, you know, that sounds awesome!" (source)

after that geoff kept asking mikey when his brother would come down to the eyeball house, because he'd loved comics since he was a kid, but he was too shy to verbalize that, and his love of comics wasn't something he'd ever actually shared with anyone other than his grandmother, who had just passed away, but he heard that this quiet guy who'd sometimes hang out with the scene's resident kid brother was this amazing comic book artist, and geoff decided that gerard was a person he wanted to know.

So like they were literally talking about writing a comic book together: geoff would write and gerard would draw. but they never were able to spend that much time together. thursday found massive and unanticipated success in late 2001 when understanding in a car crash started playing on mtv nonstop and gerard was still a hermit for the most part but had started to piece together the band that would become my chemical romance.

so then blah blah blah the story where gerard and mikey introduced the idea of their band to geoff we've all heard it. i linked it above but you can read the excerpt from dan ozzi's sellout here if you aren't familiar with the details already.

and that story ends with geoff listening to their demo and realizing that this little band actually had something. but i firmly believe that geoff loved the scene and was so compelled by gerard's art and wanted to collaborate creatively with him that he would have been willing to do it regardless of if he came around to their music or not.

geoff said this in a podcast in 2018:

"Gerard is sort of like... when he's not sort of hiding out in his house somewhere, he's actually so charming and personable. There's a reason why I was so drawn to him, and that he's, like, a superstar."

obviously we'll never know, because geoff was so compelled by the music that he played their demo to death in the tour van and then took the only two weeks that thursday had off in one of the busiest years of their career while in the midst of a super contentious legal affair with their record label to produce bullets.

okay now that i am looking at what i have written so far i look like an insane person and that is okay but i think that i will save the rest for another longer post about the fated careers of mcr and thursday. but i feel that i have done my job by just giving you this taste. more to come but their friendship literally so expansive and detailed (in ways that I don't usually see articulated here) that a single tumblr post is never going to do it justice. as i said, stay tuned, we're working on something more.

tl;dr (another one) gerard and geoff are perennially obsessed with each other & have been since literally the first time that they laid eyes on each other and it comes out the second that either of them have to be even a little reflective on the other's career thanks for reading my manifesto bye.

[thursdaybandcomments]

[livejournallegacy]

Dying in New Brunswick, 2002

[yr-obedt-cicero]

Do you know anything about Eliza P. Knox and her relationship with Alexander Hamilton Junior?

Love your blog, thank you for everything<3

After serving as Aide-de-camp to his late father's friend, General Morgan Lewis, until June of 1815, Alexander resumed law practice and “paid his addresses to” Eliza P. Knox. [x] Eliza was the daughter of Thomas (Records sometimes name him William) Knox and Mary Hester “Kortright” Knox. Mary was the sister of Elizabeth Monroe, James Monroe's wife. And Knox was at that time a leading merchant in New York City. Her birthdate and location of birth are both unknown, unsubstantial sources vary between her birth year being around 1796 or 1801.

In 1817, Alexander married Eliza. According to John Pintard, Eliza and Alexander eloped and ran away from the Knoxs' initially, before matters were resolved;

The father wd not consent & a runaway match ensued. A reconciliation took place a year after, when Prest Monroe visited this city, Mrs Knox, deceased, & Mrs M. being sisters.

Barck, Dorothy C., and Pintard, John. Letters from John Pintard to His Daughter, Eliza Noel Pintard Davidson, 1816-1833. United States, New-York Historical Society, 1940.

It is possible Alexander, perhaps with his wife, went and saw his uncle-in-law - James Monroe - on his deathbed. As he writes devastatingly to James Madison, [30 June 1831];

The newspapers having announced the dangerous indisposition of your much respected friend Col James Monroe, I have the melancoly task of informing you that his death is inevitable, and will most probably take place before this reaches you. Mr Monroe retains entire possession of his mental faculties and with perfect firmness and integrity awaits his demise.

“Alexander Hamilton[, Jr.] to James Madison, 30 June 1831,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-2379. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of James Madison. It is not an authoritative final version.]

In 1833, Alexander bought from Thomas E. Davis a Federal style townhouse constructed two years prior for his mother and his family in New York City, located at 4 St. Mark's Place in the East Village section of Manhattan, for $15,500. At the same time, Davis purchased The Grange from Elizabeth - age 76 years old - for $25,000. For nine years, from 1833, to 1842, Alexander and his wife Eliza, lived there with his mother, his sister Eliza Hamilton Holly, and her husband Sidney Augustus Holly (Yes, that's three whole Elizas'). The house still survives to this day, and is known as the Hamilton-Holly house.

In 1835, Eliza and Alexander drove in a coach and four through the West travelling over four thousand miles. It was on this trip, in Illinois, where he met Abraham Lincoln in a grocery store. Lincoln was reportedly; “lying upon the counter in midday telling stories.” [x]

When Eliza Knox died July 21st of 1871, Alexander moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before residing in New York City, where he lived his last few years before dying August 2nd, 1875, at his home, 83 Clinton Place, in Greenwich Village. The couple seemed to have been happily in love, and never had any children.

Hope this helps, and you're welcome!