--- Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > >--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > > > > You Don't Want To Be In The Hospital Garden > > > > (aka vegetable patch...) > > > > You Don't Want A Celestial Discharge Either > > > > > > "Celestial Discharge"? > > > > > > I'm curious, I just don't know if I really want > to know. :) > > > >Used rather cynically when one is asked about > >discharge plans for a particular patient, who is in > >fact terminal. There actually are much worse > terms, which I prefer not to use, as they are too > >insensitive. > > Well, if you're going to tease us, at least do like > Julia does, and send them off-list! Sorry, should have put a <serious> behind that last sentence. I didn't pass on some of the slang I heard even to the med students, because I truly did find it offensive. And a few aquaintances were appalled at the 'celestial discharge' - which I have to admit I thought was clever and amusing and at least a bit respectful - in a ghoulish sort of way. ;) Think I choked on one of those peanut butter-cheese crackers first time I heard it. :D
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