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Our House
We are house number 179 in our village. So a population of less than 1,000 or so.
As you see it, essentially finished for about $25,000 US dollars. Free and clear. No mortgage, no liens, no nothing. Done, finished, complete.
Built on land donated by my partner's father. A not uncommon practice here.
What does land cost? Just down the hill from us is a place for sale. About 4 - 5 acres (2+/- rai) that was offered to us for 100,000 Baht (about $2,500). Fertile farm land. There are other places, large and small for sale throughout Thailand.
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This is our tropical wood, hand carved and painted, solid wood front door.
This is the house that the front door is attached to. Notice the large roof overhangs. Plenty of shade on the surrounding deck and underneath.
This image was taken as the local villagers were setting up for the 'open house' party, May 25, 2008. It is still possible to build a home in Thailand for less than one might pay in annual mortgage payments in America.
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The septic system.
A soak, rather than leach field, system. Requires adequate soil porosity. Notice what was excavated from the dig.
We have a separate tank for the waste water systems and the solid waste system. The new, added toilet downstairs uses the solid waste system, but drains the liquid - shower, sink, floor drain - to the outside, where presumably it will help water the garden in the dry season.
The corn field in our front yard.
No need for irrigation. Corn, which likes a lot of water, is planted during the rainy season which provides it with all that it needs to grow well.
Banana trees are ubiquitous.
Nid, my partner, with our first bunch of bananas.
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The view from our front porch, looking somewhat West-South-West, rainy season clouds over the tops of the nearby hills.
Dry season
An unexpected visitor. Thailand, sometimes it leaves me speechless ...
Hi Mom. Can I keep it?
The kitchen.
The cooking counter is too high for Nid. Not much I could do about it as it was just barely tall enough to allow the gas bottle and the water bottle to fit underneath. Thus the iron steps on which she stands to stir her pots. She is an excellent country Thai cook.
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The bathroom.
The cost to lay tile is about $2 per square meter. Not per square foot, per square meter.
The front room with the Bedroom off to the right.
Look up. The ceiling is what happened to the trees after cutting and then trading for seasoned wood. Nid did the painting/shellacking.
I had wanted to keep the trees on the lot, but this is probably the better choice. The trees as they stood would have posed a nuisance and perhaps a real danger. Another solid wood door for the bedroom.
Concrete, wood, steel, and aluminum. It should last for years.
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Adding another bath underneath the house together with additional living and working space.
After about a week the floor, the new toilet, the exterior walls and the new interior walls are all in place. Finishing will take another week or so. The upstairs aluminum windows were made locally.
These guys were hired locally and will work all day for about 100 Baht, about $3. The guy in the background is a skilled contractor and gets a bit more for his expertise. About 200 Baht per day.
I am Tola.
This is Nid.
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This is our house.
Before starting the downstairs construction and as seen from the street side.
After completing the new rooms and toilet underneath. This view is from the corn field side. The water tank, Nid's garden, and the new toilet addition are visible. Notice also the shade around the upper deck from the exaggerated roof over hang and the orange trees in front.
$25,000.
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Euthanasia Clinic
I'm For Euthanasia. I Support Your Right to Choose.
A Person Should be Able to Choose the Time, Place, and Manner of Their Own Death.
As more and more people get older, and as they are denied dignified alternative options, many will insist on using all available means to stay alive. Or perhaps they will make no decisions about their own end of life experience and allow attending physicians to make those decisions for them. As a result, more and more people will be sustained on life support mechanisms and decisions will have to be made, without their input or consent, regarding 'pulling the plug'.
While for some this will result in the elimination of life sustaining oxygen, without replacing it with inert Helium or Nitrogen to dispel the build up of anxiety causing Carbon Dioxide, for others it will mean forced starvation over several weeks with attendant palliative care to ensure life is sustained for as long as possible.
These are not desirable end of life experiences. They actually sound like torture. Yet they are condoned while Euthanasia is condemned.
Society will argue endlessly over each case while loved ones are left to suffer and pay for the legal and medical bills.
A Compassionate Law and a Euthanasia Clinic could help make those end of life decisions easier by allowing people to choose the time, place, and manner of their own peaceful and painless death.
A Compassionate Law
Those about whom we care the most may be subject to legal prosecution if they choose to be with us when we need them most.
A dying person does not need the additional worry that their manner of death might cause felony charges to be brought against their loved ones.
A Compassionate Law would make it possible for a person to be in close physical contact with the dying at the time of death and not be subject to legal prosecution afterwards.
A Euthanasia Clinic
would be a place which would be morally defensible, legally acceptable, and compatible with a Compassionate Law.
A p
lace where people could be together at the time of death and know that they would absolutely not be subject to criminal prosecution afterwards.A Euthanasia Clinic would provide a place where a Compassionate Law could be implemented.
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Here is an image from a referenced web site.
Here is an image from the video, Soylent Green, showing a Euthanasia Clinic of the future.
The first shows a man contemplating the means of his own death, alone. The other shows a man receiving tender care from compassionate individuals at the time of his death. The first may die alone, while the other will never feel abandoned.
Compassionate care and a Euthanasia Clinic.
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