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      Am I misremembering, or didn’t he get some genome sequencing done at some point in the late 00s/10s and they found out that he had a ton of genes known to make you metabolize drugs and alcohol very quickly?

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    If there is an afterlife … the universal creator probably sent Ozzie to hell

    A perpetual afternoon soiree in upstate New York with a women’s nature conservation group

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      Ozzy would rock that and they would be listening to good music in a millionth of an eternity.

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        Ozzie was sent back to 18th century America and there’s no electricity … so no electric guitars, amplification or sound equipment :(

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          You haven’t heard of the double base? Or band shells? Stravinsky didn’t need amplifiers or electricity to start a riot with music.

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    Seeing as how he had Parkinsons and this happened a few weeks after the farewell show, my money’s on suicide not natural causes. He wanted to go out on his own terms.

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      I feel like if Ozzy was going to kill himself at the end of his farewell tour, he’d do it on stage at the end of the last show. How could he pass up the opportunity to do the most metal shit imaginable?

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      Ozzy isn’t the first person to die shortly after they completed a final task. No need to sully his legacy with unprovable speculation.

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        Why sully? If I were losing control of my body I’d do the same. There’s no shame in that. Like… a common way to die with parkinson’s is aspiration pneumonia. That doesn’t sound at all like fun.

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      I heard he had mentioned going to Switzerland to use their euthanasia pods at one point. Pretty humane way to go instead of letting your body slowly deteriorate for a few years imo

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        Doubt it. But maybe he just took a bunch of sleeping pills or something. Dunno how any of this works or if the police would be forced to investigate or whatever. Maybe it’s just one of those stories where you know you’re dying but you’re hanging on to finish something and once that’s done you let go and die finally. Could be that as well… or it’s all just a coincidence, why not. But my version seems more Ozzy.

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        Officially no. It’s actually something Ozzy was involved in the campaign for. There’s a religious crowd who freak out at the very idea. No government has yet had the will to push updates past them.

        There are however doctors who will happily make a pain med prescription that is “incompatible with life”. If the patient happens to die, while dealing with the pain, well at least they weren’t in pain.

        I believe the police also have a similar mindset. They won’t look too deeply, if they suspect it happened that way, with the patient’s consent. They do have the shadow of Harold Shipman hanging over them however. They missed a serial killer for years, since he was targeting OAPs.

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            It’s definitely needed. I watched a relative pass. Her brain was gone from stroke damage. It took almost a fortnight for her to pass however. It was horrible.

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            Old Age Pensioners.

            The age group most likely to drop dead, and so have the least scrutiny.