What a great advert!
What a perfect advert for the Las Vegas restaurant known as The Heart Attack Grill!
This from the Indy-
John Alleman was the local security guard who became the HAG’s unofficial spokesman…… greeting patrons at the medically-themed restaurant. Now he’s dead – and I bet you can guess how.
The 52-year-old suffered a heart attack last week while waiting at the bus stop outside the restaurant and earlier this week his life support machine was turned off, according to a post on the Grill’s Facebook page.
Although he was never on the restaurant’s payroll, his daily visits and efforts to rope in new customers led the owners to commemorate him with his very own caricature on the menu – called “Patient John”.
Now I happen to think that is amusing and I have no doubt “Patient John” and the HAG’s owners would love the irony of it. …but lots of po-faced comments here
What is wrong with people? We all have to die at some point and it doesn’t matter when, what matters is that you live and die with a smile on your face, as I’m sure John Alleman did!
Filed under: JD, Society & human issues
We watched a programme recorded off BBC4 recently about creating a completely bionic man. The technology now is amazing for arms and legs. Even the artificial heart and blood in the circulatory system was ok if you’re not too squeamish.
The heart is used already in the US to give people a second chance when their heart fails and there isn’t a possibility of a transplant. You do have to tow around a small suitcase on wheels with the battery pack in it though. But if you want to live longer then that’s a small price to pay.
However, it featured an operation on a very obese man to give him this artificial heart at a cost of $200,000. His own heart was abnormally enlarged and surrounded by a thick layer of fat. It did make me stop and consider if this was the right thing to do. Effectively it’s like saying there are no consequences if we choose to abuse our ‘biological suit’ because if we have the money or insurance we can just plug ourselves into technology to keep us going for as long as we like.
Personally all the talk about creating a totally bionic ‘human’ is still a fantasy. Yes the technology is brilliant but they don’t even know what consciousness is let alone understand emotions and feelings so it’ll be a long time, if ever, before they will truly replace the brain and the intangible things that make us human.
Imagine though a truly bionic man – think of the stamina.
James Higham recently posted…“Ginny’s boyfriend” gets it wrong again