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Is that kind of like "Elvis has left the building", only more artsy??

"The living shall returneth not,
Steal gently to my earthen plot
I have led a merry chase
Weep not for me, I've left this place...."

For the record, I thought the 3rd name down was "Beaner farts", could be my eyesight, though.

there is something like this at the old asylom next to my house

FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS. Wow, we deserve a nobel prizes, we just figured out one of life's greatest mysterys!!

So that's NOT a water drinking well RIGHT? And if it was I just found the other causes of insanity and TB!

Excellent, heart-rending work, ~Me.

Alright there's a lot of TB hospitals, is it like what cancer is to us now? INFO PLEASE!

That looks-uh-safe?

I was there Last night

Kate, I, too have worked with clients young and old, severely handicapped and high-functioning. Most people look at these folks like they are pariahs. There are worse so-called "normal" people out there. While I worked in the field, I loved and lost some that were like family. Others terrified me, and threatened my life (those were few and far between) . Regardless, although we were told never to get close to any of these people, how could you not? Most were the best of friends. So, very best wishes on your book. Let me know when you publish--I want an autographed copy! Thanks for the use of your soapbox, Lynn, darling. =)

Hey I'm definitly going exploring in a small section of The Merrimack Valley Hospital In Haverhill MA soon, they shut it down 4 ish years ago, and I've been aching to go in it. It's in a suburb, but there;s not a lot of cops, and I know the neighbors! I can tell you what it's like incase it sparks your interest!

You go crazy gasping for air after you've ingested those poisonous berries, I get it now.

"But stay! these walls--these ivy-clad arcades--
These mouldering plinths--these sad and blackened shafts--these vague entablatures--this crumbling frieze--these shattered cornices--this wreck--this ruin--these stones--alas! these gray stones--are they all--all of the famed, and the colossal left. By the corrosive Hours to Fate and me?"

A lot of times shower rooms and baths need to be accessible for kids who never learned how to bathe correctly. Many of my kids were so severely abused that they have no idea how to care for themselves and staff need to show them how to shower and do basic hygiene. Unfortunately there are many times when we need to invade their privacy in order to teach them what they weren't able to learn from their parents. And Lynne makes a great point about those with suicidal tendencies. I have a 13 year old headbanger/cutter who could probably find 80 different ways to hurt himself if left unattended in the shower. Ways that you or I would never even dream of! Sometimes I think a kid desperate enough could kill himself with a tube of toothpaste- and I'm not saying that with even a hint of joking. I guess you have to imagine a small trade- a little bit of dignity for a lot of safety.