We’re all going to die eventually. Shouldn’t we make the most of every day?

JohnJ on May 7, 2007 at 4:26 PM

I don’t think that “making the most of every day” means spending the most that you possibly can. Apparently, this guy must’ve led a pretty pathetic life if he wasn’t worried about leaving anything to his (presumptive) heirs.

This speaks to the guy’s heart. Why didn’t he give the money to charity? Where your treasure is, that’s where your heart is.

Mojave Mark on May 7, 2007 at 6:57 PM

He might not be a leftie.

It’s called “responsibility to minimize damage.” For instance, if Bill Gates sprays gasoline on you by accident and you scream “JACKPOT!!” and purposely set yourself on fire, you don’t get damages for being on fire.

I think he’s an idiot, but that’s just me. Always get a second opinion.

SuperManGreenLantern on May 7, 2007 at 8:57 PM

I think you just gave him one.

And here you though cognitive dissonance was just a river in Africa…

Blacklake on May 7, 2007 at 5:05 PM

Extremely well put.

This speaks to the guy’s heart. Why didn’t he give the money to charity? Where your treasure is, that’s where your heart is.

If I have a terminal disease, I think a little ‘me time’ is in order..

We’re all going to die eventually. Shouldn’t we make the most of every day?

JohnJ on May 7, 2007 at 4:26 PM

Sure, JohnJ. Just do it responsibly and pay your bills.

So he quit his job and stopped paying his mortgage, instead splashing out on a lavish lifestyle of hotels, restaurants and holidays.

That knocked the ol’ sympathy meter back a few notches.

Mr Brandrick said that in the year he thought he was dying he spent everything and now he faces losing his house.

Doesn’t that mean he was spending his life savings as well as money that he owed others?

What if he had committed suicide instead of just spending all his money?

frreal on May 7, 2007 at 5:19 PM

Then he wouldn’t have a case….

I bet Edwards has already been on the phone to him trying to convince him to sue in Marion County, IL. ;^)

georgej on May 7, 2007 at 6:18 PM

Or Wisconsin, now that the Jim Doyle-packed state Supreme Court threw out Wisconsin’s limits on malpractice damages.

I’d give him the USFL dollar in damages.

If he lived in the USA, he could hire John Edwards, and Edwards would then “channel” his pancreas to the court, which would tell the jury how much it suffered when it was told it had incurable cancer.

The guy would win a $100,000,000 award, Edwards’ cut would be $35 million that he would add to his warchest and he’d beat Obama and Hillary for the nomination.

I bet Edwards has already been on the phone to him trying to convince him to sue in Marion County, IL. ;^)

/still a ways to go, but I ain’t gonna be old when I’m 62, fer shure

We’re all going to die eventually. Shouldn’t we make the most of every day?
JohnJ on May 7, 2007 at 4:26 PM

OK, who lost their 60′s flower child?…we just found him. /s

This might be on Red Eye tonight, if Gutfeld runs out of stories on animals and/or strippers.

Jim Treacher on May 7, 2007 at 5:34 PM

New prediction: Gutfeld draws a unicorn offering to donate her pancreas to the disembodied head of John Brandrick while Fluffy McNutter stares pensively into the distance.

“I only kept summer wear because that was all I’d got left to live.

“I kept a suit, a tie, a shirt and a pair of shoes to be buried in because I arranged all my own funeral.”
This guy sounds like a great candidate for employment. If he can get here to Florida I’m looking for a salesman.

Hmm … Is that required in most states? In mine, medical malpractice requires only duty, breach, injury and causation. The forseeability of the injury is irrelevant.

Thus, if the doctor (1) assumed the duty of care (he did, by providing any diagnosis at all), and (2) breached that duty of care (by blowing the diagnosis, as judged by the standard of a “reasonably prudent” physician); and then (3) the patient incurred injury (including financial injury); and (4) the jury buys that the injury was caused by the breach of care (by finding it was reasonable for the patient to blow all his money becuase he thought he was going to die; contrast with the unrelated requirement that the doctor find such action “reasonably foreeseeable”), then the doctor may well be screwed.

I don’t care; Rachel Marsden is hot. Yes, I know she’s crazy as a loon. I don’t care.

Kensington on May 7, 2007 at 5:31 PM

Hm, if you say so. Check, please!

I’m thinking this story is going to turn up on Red Eye tonight, and I’m also thinking that Rachel’s going to take the hardline “jack squat” position.

Further, she’ll blame this guy’s sense of entitlement on Bill Clinton.