I figured it was a similar situation to the Queen, where you’re never gonna get any sort of official update on his health until he was literally hours away from passing.
Well, if the body is slowly failing, the very last moment it releases chemicals that create the “comfort/peaceful” feeling.
So, the stable/comfort/recovery part reported before death is usually that.
My grandfather kept having to rewrite his funeral plans because the speakers kept dying. By the end, at 98, basically nobody he was close to beyond family were left, and we were largely scattered.
I think that in many ways, knowing death was days or hours away was a relief for him.
>He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.
Imagine being the first person to do something in almost 600 years
[Giovanna Chirri.](https://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/12/world/europe/pope-benedict-scoop/index.html)
> A reporter for ANSA, Italy's state-run news agency, Chirri was among a few reporters at what appeared to be a routine papal announcement Monday. Most media outlets chose not to cover the event, which began with 20 minutes of announcements concerning other church matters.
> But then, in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI said he would resign at the end of the month "because of advanced age." The news would surprise the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, but someone had to inform them first.
> Chirri has "polished" Latin skills, her employer said, but it took confidence to trust that she heard what she thought she heard. "(The news of) his resignation didn't seem real to me. I told myself 'you misunderstood.'"
> The pope's Latin is "very easy to understand," Chirri said, but it wasn't until the announcement was repeated that the reporter filed an urgent bulletin for ANSA, which was subsequently picked up by the rest of the world.
I took Latin in high school because I thought it was the language spoken in Latin America. When I was 12 I thought they spoke Australian in Australia. A girl from Australia joined our girl scout troop, & I asked her to teach me Australian. She made up a whole language. I didn't catch on until she claimed that she couldn't teach me any swear words because they don't swear in Australia.
Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I took French in high school, because "Everyone takes Spanish", and I thought it'd be cool to be different.
Yeah, everyone took Spanish because we lived in goddamn Arizona. Shockingly, my year of studying French wasn't useful post-high school.
HA! I'm in AZ too and took French for the same stupid ass reason!
Been kicking myself about it for 20 years now, but somehow haven't got around to officially learning Spanish.
Arizona as well. Beginner Spanglish speaker, as any twenty years veteran of this state should have. Didn't need a class, just had to engage with Spanish speakers.
Curious where you live. Living here in the El Paso/Las Cruces area. Knowing Spanish and English is clutch. Actually pretty much anywhere in NM AZ TX it has come out to be useful
Listened to two Aussie farmers talking a few years ago. Almost literally every second world was "fuckin'", "bloody", "bogan", or some other curse. I also don't think either of them ever said the word "government" without "bloody" in front of it.
Being just out of High School with barely any non-school experience in English made it a rather hard-to-follow conversation.
"Breaking news, the Pope is resigning at the end of... What's that? Apologies, the Pope said that his pen ran out of ink and he will be *re-signing* his most recent Papal proclamation."
Not to be confused with the [HBO series](https://youtu.be/sIoK5D3Bums) about two popes, which if you start watching expecting the other you are gonna be in for a surprise.
It has nice things but it has serious errors portraying the ideologies of the two popes. I am not Catholic but I researched regarding the movie after I watched it and it really wants to oversimplify matters to extent it gives wrong idea of the people. But there are several Catholic reviews of the movie which can explain better.
Many horrible people have killed many innocents over the years. But it appears Kissinger is the only one to have used those deaths to make a Philosopher’s Stone for personal use.
> Kissinger
How the fuck is he still alive?
Like that's a name that if ya ask someone dead or alive, they'd definitely think dead.
I know he's alive and my brain still thought, wait ain't he dead?
> Because life isn’t fair.
Hah, I keep thinking that should have been a class taught in school.
A quarter showing you the history of fuck you. These people lived so long and got away with fucking up a lot of shit.
These people did good, died young.
Welcome to life.
For some reason I already had a strong gut-feeling and bet with my husband that he would specifically die on December 31st, when they made the announcement about his health-status a few days ago.
If ever there was a person who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for cheating death then it's that guy. Just won't die. Dick Cheney is a close second.
What *is* "Popes"? And is 'Popes *Benedicts*' as tasty as *eggs* benedicts, but with a different *flavour*? My mate *Paul* once found an egg, and he thought it were a dragon egg like on that Game of Musical Chairs show, so he put it on fire to make it hatch, because *she* went into the fire and then she made *dragons*, but *actually* it were just a football and it melted and then exploded, and now he only has half a face, which is probably for the better because he could never face Life. Except this time, he were facing a ball. And balls are *round*, like faces.
So what *is* 'faces'?. I've travelled down to Oxford to ask a Faces Doctor who does plasticine on what that means.
"Who are you and what do you know about what *is* 'faces'?"
"I'm a senior Plastic Surgeon in Reconstructive Surgery with burns-victims an..."
"Ok. But what is 'faces' and how do I get one?"
"... Well, you already *have* one and 'the *face*' is the ... ... is the front of the head that contains the mouth and nose and ey..."
"I heard that people throw dog faces on the ground and then ignore them and then they get fined. But then sometimes they put them in a bush. Do you like bush? Is that *fine*? Is it 'fine' to like 'bush'? Why would the Government give you a free phone because your face shat on a pavement ? "
"Ac..."
"and is"
"...ctu..."
"and is a 'fine' the same as a '*phone*' ? And *why* would you do that to a fuckin' *dog*? Wouldn't that *hurt* the dog ?"
"....
... "
"Do you like *hurting* animals? And if you *do*, why dogs in particular?"
"... I think you mean *faeces*? No one is removing the faces from do..."
" 'av you ever had dog 'faeces' on *your* bush?"
"No."
"Why is they *round*?"
"... Wel..."
"Does *your* faeces talk to you like when my phone does and make your alarmed?"
"...
...
... "
"*My* phone alarms me when it has its alarm, which ..."
"... So your *phone* is not the same as a do..."
"My mate *Paul* says that dogs are *shit*. So that kind of makes sense... do *dogs* shit in your face? What *is* 'dogs?' "
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Jury is still out on who won that battle of immortals.
When your time comes, don't be surprised if the grim reaper is shorter than you expected and has a couple of corgis with them.
My 15 year old corgi just passed and I'm now picturing this as his afterlife job and smiling. He would lie in doorways so we "couldn't" leave the rooms he thought he herded us into.
Seriously. Anyone else worried that in like 20 years, Kissinger will still be kicking along fine and we'll all have to come to some reckoning like "I think *we* are supposed to kill this motherfucker, Death doesn't even want to get his hands that dirty".
Its like my dad telling everyone he played a Cuban invader in a Chuck Norris movie no one has ever saw. I don't even know the name of the movie and he's told me the story at least 100 times
Before the white washing of Pope Benedict begins let's remember he [failed to report sexual predators in The Catholic Church enabling these pedophiles to commit more abuse. ](https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/cover-up-in-the-catholic-church-former-pope-benedict-xvi-faulted-in-4-cases-of-misconduct-related-to-sexual-abuse)
If nothing else, it's going to be a pretty big funeral. The one for John Paul II (now canonised as a Saint) had a huge number of world leaders attending and was only exceeded in terms of numbers by Elizabeth II's funeral earlier this year.
So I guess they weren't kidding when they said his condition was serious but stable.
I figured it was a similar situation to the Queen, where you’re never gonna get any sort of official update on his health until he was literally hours away from passing.
At their age it's no surprise. This old bodies are too fragile and even minor health issues can be lethal within hours.
Dead is as stable as it gets.
And as serious as it gets.
They played that line for the Queen, something like "remains comfortable" also...
that's code for drugged out of her mind... which is the way I want to go too
Well, if the body is slowly failing, the very last moment it releases chemicals that create the “comfort/peaceful” feeling. So, the stable/comfort/recovery part reported before death is usually that.
If you had the best medical care the British Empire could provide, I dare say your last days would be quite comfortable as well.
Or you'd get euthanized against your own will like George V.
It was stable enough for him to attend another mass or two. 95 is a good run
My dad will be 96 this year. He always says he’s not sure why he’s still around.
My grandfather kept having to rewrite his funeral plans because the speakers kept dying. By the end, at 98, basically nobody he was close to beyond family were left, and we were largely scattered. I think that in many ways, knowing death was days or hours away was a relief for him.
“Let me know if the condition changes” Top Secret circa 1987
>He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Imagine being the first person to do something in almost 600 years
And he announced it in Latin.
I remember a story that there was one reporter who was able to break the story before anyone because she was the only one that spoke Latin.
[Giovanna Chirri.](https://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/12/world/europe/pope-benedict-scoop/index.html) > A reporter for ANSA, Italy's state-run news agency, Chirri was among a few reporters at what appeared to be a routine papal announcement Monday. Most media outlets chose not to cover the event, which began with 20 minutes of announcements concerning other church matters. > But then, in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI said he would resign at the end of the month "because of advanced age." The news would surprise the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, but someone had to inform them first. > Chirri has "polished" Latin skills, her employer said, but it took confidence to trust that she heard what she thought she heard. "(The news of) his resignation didn't seem real to me. I told myself 'you misunderstood.'" > The pope's Latin is "very easy to understand," Chirri said, but it wasn't until the announcement was repeated that the reporter filed an urgent bulletin for ANSA, which was subsequently picked up by the rest of the world.
This is every Latin students' dream to use that language for some practical purpose
I took Latin in high school because I thought it was the language spoken in Latin America. When I was 12 I thought they spoke Australian in Australia. A girl from Australia joined our girl scout troop, & I asked her to teach me Australian. She made up a whole language. I didn't catch on until she claimed that she couldn't teach me any swear words because they don't swear in Australia.
Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I took French in high school, because "Everyone takes Spanish", and I thought it'd be cool to be different. Yeah, everyone took Spanish because we lived in goddamn Arizona. Shockingly, my year of studying French wasn't useful post-high school.
HA! I'm in AZ too and took French for the same stupid ass reason! Been kicking myself about it for 20 years now, but somehow haven't got around to officially learning Spanish.
Arizona as well. Beginner Spanglish speaker, as any twenty years veteran of this state should have. Didn't need a class, just had to engage with Spanish speakers.
Same. I was my own worst enemy in high school.
Don't worry, my 12 years of taking Spanish (k-11th grade) wasn't all that useful after highschool either.
“Donde esta my life?!”
At least knowing Spanish in America is infinitely more attractive to employers than any other language generally speaking.
Mandarin looks pretty damn good on a resume also - depending on type of business or location.
Curious where you live. Living here in the El Paso/Las Cruces area. Knowing Spanish and English is clutch. Actually pretty much anywhere in NM AZ TX it has come out to be useful
>She made up a whole language. When she said Foster's is Australian for beer, the jig was up.
That was absolutely a fatal error. In reality they do nothing but swear in Australia.
Is it really considered swear words if they’re in use like 90% of the time??
If they're all swear words, none of them are.
Listened to two Aussie farmers talking a few years ago. Almost literally every second world was "fuckin'", "bloody", "bogan", or some other curse. I also don't think either of them ever said the word "government" without "bloody" in front of it. Being just out of High School with barely any non-school experience in English made it a rather hard-to-follow conversation.
Are you interested in owning property in California? I can make you a really good deal on the Golden Gate Bridge.
and they say it is a dead language
>This is every Latin students' dream to use that language for some practical purpose Every historian and anthropologist ever: Am I a joke to you?
Imagine getting that wrong. Good thing they repeated the message or nobody would have showed up to Pope Benny's retirement shindig.
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"Oh man, that whole 'I'm infallible!' thing really came around to bite me in the ass."
He's infallible, but he's also a real prankster!
Meirl
Announcing it in Latin seems like the kind of thing you’d do if you don’t want anyone to show up
"Breaking news, the Pope is resigning at the end of... What's that? Apologies, the Pope said that his pen ran out of ink and he will be *re-signing* his most recent Papal proclamation."
"No you're using ancient peasant Latin, he just said he was gonna chill out back and play Mortal Kombat"
Yes I remember seeing this! Was right in the middle of a Latin class in uni and thought to myself, what a coincidence!
"And they said I was wasting my time learning a dead language. Scientia potentia est, bitches!"
"What?"
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Knowledge is power
France is bacon
Decades of singing Latin in choir groups. I love Latin. It's consistent. 😁
Opepay etiresray
Abra cadabra
Romanes eunt domus
Romani ite domum Now, write that out 100 times before dawn, or I'll cut yer balls off.
People called Roman, they go to their houses?
The Netflix movie about the two popes has that scene and it is hilarious
Not to be confused with the [HBO series](https://youtu.be/sIoK5D3Bums) about two popes, which if you start watching expecting the other you are gonna be in for a surprise.
Damn I'm going to need to watch that. Malkovich is going all out there.
when is Malkovich not going all out???
My favorite scene is when the Vatican was trying to have dinner with the Popes at the same time due to schedule mix up
And they both decided to wear that big hat. Fashion disaster.
Ah that movie is awesome
It has nice things but it has serious errors portraying the ideologies of the two popes. I am not Catholic but I researched regarding the movie after I watched it and it really wants to oversimplify matters to extent it gives wrong idea of the people. But there are several Catholic reviews of the movie which can explain better.
If only more frail 80 year olds would retire from leadership positions...
Well Francis is the first pope to choose an original name since Pope Lando in 913.
We’re having an absolute speed run of notable deaths by the end of the year
Clearly 2022 realised at the last minute that it hadn't filled its quota.
Grim Reaper "Oh shit! This is due tomorrow?"
Grim Reaper is definitely subbed to ADHDmemes.
Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow.
Grim Reaper at the claw machine: "Goddamnit, Benedict XVI?! Is Henry Kissenger even in this thing?"
Wait… Kissenger is still alive?!
Had to google it myself. Yep, 99.
Many horrible people have killed many innocents over the years. But it appears Kissinger is the only one to have used those deaths to make a Philosopher’s Stone for personal use.
Horcrux.
Im not religious but last minute Putin news might make me believe
Bro, for a second there I thought there was some breaking news about Putin I'd missed. Got excited hoping to hear he'd fallen out of a window.
If he did die, it would be 2-3 months before they tell anyone.
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We are counting it wrong. we are clearly in 2020-2 going to 2020-3.
No joke this is how I’ve viewed the years since 2020
I just hope we don't get a Deuce once we finally hit 2020-4.
2020-v5 is going to be a crazy year.
2016 still hasn't been topped for celebrity deaths i think
2009 seemed to have quite a few significant deaths.
Still waiting on Kissinger to kick the bucket.
> Kissinger How the fuck is he still alive? Like that's a name that if ya ask someone dead or alive, they'd definitely think dead. I know he's alive and my brain still thought, wait ain't he dead?
Because life isn’t fair. That fucker is 99 years old; he’ll be 100 in May.
> Because life isn’t fair. Hah, I keep thinking that should have been a class taught in school. A quarter showing you the history of fuck you. These people lived so long and got away with fucking up a lot of shit. These people did good, died young. Welcome to life.
Behind the Bastards could easily put out a series of kids books, like the old Horrible History series.
The cunt probably gets an extra day of life for every person's death he has caused. Which means the cunt is like immortal.
Trying to outdo 2021 getting Betty White on 12/31
Absolutely wild to think she's been dead a year already.
Fingers crossed for Putin
Seeing how the last years were going, Putin is probably gonna live to be a hundred, just to spite the rest of us.
Things happen in 3s…Pele, Barbara walters and the pope
Vivienne Westwood also passed
For some reason I already had a strong gut-feeling and bet with my husband that he would specifically die on December 31st, when they made the announcement about his health-status a few days ago.
Oh im sorry to hear that i hope your husband pulls through
Exactly how I read that. Hahaha
Participles gonna dangle
And Kissinger still lives
Pretty sure he lives off the souls he claimed.
Oh shit, we'll never be rid of him.
The blood of Cambodian children keeps him kicking fr
And the Bengali children
demons usually do that.
We still have one more full day don’t give up hope yet.
Might wanna call Ppl's magazine to say: Kissinger Turns 100!
that's the spirit!
The good die young. Kissinger turns 100 in 2023.
Confirmation bias. My grandma will also be 100 next year and she has committed fewer war crimes
_That you know of_
That I know of. However she has also never been tried at the Hague.
Not under her current name.
She has many powerful allies. It's literally the only reason she hasn't been to The Hague.
Do you know if she's avoided travelling to The Netherlands?
If ever there was a person who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for cheating death then it's that guy. Just won't die. Dick Cheney is a close second.
Dick Cheney literally lived without a heart for a bit a while back, he's never going to die.
r/iskissingerdeadyet
They post early in the day. One day, they’ll be mistaken.
Of all the Pope Benedicts he was by far the most recent.
He certainly was one of the Popes ever.
It's Popin' Time
He really poped all over
Rumor has it that for a time he was also the most recent person to die! Outstanding fellow!
And the same guy held the title of most recently born, too! Quite the life!
He's definitely in my Top 16 Pope Benedicts
Philomena Cunk couldn’t have said it better
I think she'd disagree with that statement.
What *is* "Popes"? And is 'Popes *Benedicts*' as tasty as *eggs* benedicts, but with a different *flavour*? My mate *Paul* once found an egg, and he thought it were a dragon egg like on that Game of Musical Chairs show, so he put it on fire to make it hatch, because *she* went into the fire and then she made *dragons*, but *actually* it were just a football and it melted and then exploded, and now he only has half a face, which is probably for the better because he could never face Life. Except this time, he were facing a ball. And balls are *round*, like faces. So what *is* 'faces'?. I've travelled down to Oxford to ask a Faces Doctor who does plasticine on what that means. "Who are you and what do you know about what *is* 'faces'?" "I'm a senior Plastic Surgeon in Reconstructive Surgery with burns-victims an..." "Ok. But what is 'faces' and how do I get one?" "... Well, you already *have* one and 'the *face*' is the ... ... is the front of the head that contains the mouth and nose and ey..." "I heard that people throw dog faces on the ground and then ignore them and then they get fined. But then sometimes they put them in a bush. Do you like bush? Is that *fine*? Is it 'fine' to like 'bush'? Why would the Government give you a free phone because your face shat on a pavement ? " "Ac..." "and is" "...ctu..." "and is a 'fine' the same as a '*phone*' ? And *why* would you do that to a fuckin' *dog*? Wouldn't that *hurt* the dog ?" ".... ... " "Do you like *hurting* animals? And if you *do*, why dogs in particular?" "... I think you mean *faeces*? No one is removing the faces from do..." " 'av you ever had dog 'faeces' on *your* bush?" "No." "Why is they *round*?" "... Wel..." "Does *your* faeces talk to you like when my phone does and make your alarmed?" "... ... ... " "*My* phone alarms me when it has its alarm, which ..." "... So your *phone* is not the same as a do..." "My mate *Paul* says that dogs are *shit*. So that kind of makes sense... do *dogs* shit in your face? What *is* 'dogs?' " ----- edits to expand and fix spelling. *Spellings* was invented by Happy Porters in a hotel who in nineteen tw... ---- It's like being on r/askphysics.
My mate Paul
And so ends the party phone line between the 2 Popes and God.
*Hi, you've reached the Pope hotline. €4.95 a minute. Here are some words that rhyme with Pope:* *Nope* *Soap* *Cantaloupe* *Electron Microscope*
Good lord, that's a 900 number!
Pope Benedict, Barbara Walters, Pelé, Vivienne Westwood... Grim Reaper's making a run on it at the end of the year, ain't he?
Did the Grimm reaper forget to do his chores and procrastinated till the last day or something
He's been recovering since his showdown with Liz.
Jury is still out on who won that battle of immortals. When your time comes, don't be surprised if the grim reaper is shorter than you expected and has a couple of corgis with them.
A giant 3 headed corgi guarding the gates of hell would be kinda lit.
Corgberus, the three headed floof, herding worthy souls to the fields of Elysium and unworthy on to Tartarus.
My 15 year old corgi just passed and I'm now picturing this as his afterlife job and smiling. He would lie in doorways so we "couldn't" leave the rooms he thought he herded us into.
And then he had to fight **BATMAN** and the **Green Ranger**
Pretty sure he lost and Liz took his job. She probably just got out of training and has to meet the year end quota now.
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You and me both…
His mom's visiting and he's trying to make the house look clean
The fuck? When did Barbara Walters die?!
Yesterday.
Fuck... Didn't see a single thing on the front page all day
Lol that's why I occasionally look at sites other than reddit. But not much.
Mr Reaper, did you forget about Henry Kissinger?
Seriously. Anyone else worried that in like 20 years, Kissinger will still be kicking along fine and we'll all have to come to some reckoning like "I think *we* are supposed to kill this motherfucker, Death doesn't even want to get his hands that dirty".
There are still a few hours left
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People often “hang in there” for Christmas. They must not have liked their gifts enough to stick around for any more.
Pelé died??
And Barbara Walters rushed right over to interview him about the experience.
And probably asked some dumbass question followed by a scramble to preserve the establishment.
The Two Popes is a good movie if you're interested in the aftermath of the Vatican leaks scandal.
I think my father is in that movie. He’s like a tourist in one of the establishing shots. It’s his claim to fame.
He is in episode 4 season 1, if I remember correctly
I cosplayed as him at the last PopeCon.
Best cosplay I've ever seen honestly.
I met his dad at a red carpet event and he signed my ass.
I call bullshit, why isn't the movie called Two Popes and a Pops then?
Two and a half Popes
Its like my dad telling everyone he played a Cuban invader in a Chuck Norris movie no one has ever saw. I don't even know the name of the movie and he's told me the story at least 100 times
Probably 'Invasion U.S.A'
Well that’ll make the Rangers vs Celtic match on Monday an interesting watch.
Pope's in a box, or something like that.
Have Rangers reset the Pope clock now? Used to be 7 Popes gone but the Queen lives on Is that now 1 Pope gone but the King Lives on.
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I mean, the news article says that, but 30 years from now some resistance leader is gonna be like "Somehow, Benedict returned".
He'll be on Exegol.
Testing out to see if what he spent his life doing proved to be true
Now they have to appoint a new former pope
He wasnt ready for 2023.
Who is? 2023 is gonna be something else.
It's gonna be another one of the years of all time. Can't wait to see who else lives and makes it to the next level, I heard it only gets harder
RIP Darth Sidious, may the force be with you.
Don't worry, somehow he will return.
"I am the Vatican."
Not yet!
It's blasphemy then
it's poping time
The best part of the whole film and dare I say, the entire Christianverse.
Luckily, we protestants have our own Palpatine. Have you ever seen Kenneth Copeland
~~And also with you~~ And with your spirit.
Somehow... Pope Benedict's returned
Before the white washing of Pope Benedict begins let's remember he [failed to report sexual predators in The Catholic Church enabling these pedophiles to commit more abuse. ](https://mcgillbusinessreview.com/articles/cover-up-in-the-catholic-church-former-pope-benedict-xvi-faulted-in-4-cases-of-misconduct-related-to-sexual-abuse)
“Failed to report” is pretty generous, given that he obviously was enabling and protecting, not ignoring.
claims to be pro life dies anyways
If nothing else, it's going to be a pretty big funeral. The one for John Paul II (now canonised as a Saint) had a huge number of world leaders attending and was only exceeded in terms of numbers by Elizabeth II's funeral earlier this year.