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My Life in a Thai Village
Located about 3 hours South of Chiang Mai, Thailand.
To say that you are fed up with the 'West'; America, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain (can we really say 'Great' anymore?), yet continue to view it as your home, is disingenuous. If you think that the fall of Western civilization is imminent, then why base your future in the places that will be the hardest hit?
I have been in SE Asia since shortly after the USA invaded Iraq. Life here is different. It is slower and has a much greater feeling of being 'in touch' with the earth and each other.
A world wide catastrophe that would bring riots to the streets of America will have minimal impact on the people in the village where I live. They will continue to grow rice, beans, corn, and other staples using minimal fertilizer and petroleum based machinery. When oil becomes scarce they can easily shift to using the water buffalo and elephants. The use of these animals, of hand forging metals, and making do with what one has are skills not yet lost to them. They walk from home to field, so commute time and traffic are concerns unknown to them.
A visit to Thailand can be done easily. A visit to rural Thailand takes some extra effort, but it may be well rewarded.
Thailand is one place you should allow yourself to experience.
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I am building a home to Western standards with enough land around it for trees, herbs, animals, and crops. My water comes from the local village (when available) supplemented with a storage tank and pressurized delivery system. We do have plans to build a rainwater collection system. Electricity comes from the Thai national utility company and I have no backup to operate the household appliances and the hot water shower system. Creating an alternative energy system is one of the chores left to do.
I hire the work to be done at about $3 per day for laborers and $10 per day for skilled masons, electricians, plumbers, etc. I do provide lunch and after work drinks, which may last well into the night ...! Home brewed Thai whiskey is white lightening before the storm.
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Location
About 3 hours south east of Chiang Mai Thailand.
Close to 7 pools waterfall in our local National park. I can see these from my front porch.
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There are several National parks, forests, and attractions close by. This is the sign for one of them.
Down the road from my home is a hot springs with $2.50/hour Thai massage, soak tubs, and mineral baths available on site.
Thailand has many hot springs.
English is the second language here ...
There are opportunities, and jobs, here for English language instructors
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Swimming, river kayaking, rappelling (abseiling), cable flying, and cold beer Chang are available at this nearby local park. Entrance fee is 20 Baht. 3 cable rides for 40 Baht. Life vests are included, but you are responsible for your own pick-up. Find a friend and rent a kayak
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My home is about 40 Km from the heart of Thailand's wood crafts center.
Every now and then I remember that most people who see this web site will have no idea what a particular thing is or looks like. Growing up in Colorado, I knew what a rice field was but only after I came here and saw a vast horizon of young, startlingly green, symmetrically flat fields did I really know what they looked like. So these images will try to fill in some gaps. Some of the things I show will be banal to most, but useful to others. I don't expect there to be any sense to their meaning or placement. They exist as what makes rural Thailand what it is.
I'll add images as I get around to it.
A log with pin posts or bearings. I wonder at the age and use of things like this.
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this.
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This Thai fishing boat is still in use, patched on the bottom, with bailing cup.
He's got it chained up so no one will take it. Better a leaky boat than no boat at all.
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The Area
About equal distance from Lampang and Phrae in Northern Thailand.
I do not know the name of the village. It is so small that it will be unknown further than 30 or so km away. It is also about equal distance between the small towns of Long and Wang Chin.
This is farming country and they grow rice, corn, beans, and tree crops.
Country roads...
... take me home ...
Rice planters. Nid is in there somewhere ...
Newly planted rice
Lazy days. Just watching the rice grow. And keeping out the pests.
Notice the 'shack' set out at the edge of the field. These are everywhere. A person will be there generally all during the growing season.
I guess that if rice is your life, then it might behoove one to watch it carefully.
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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.
Here is an image from a referenced web site.
Here is an image from the movie, 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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