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Marcus McDonald knew his time was short. He had lung cancer. His condition was deteriorating this fall.

So, McDonald, looking to spare his family the stress, picked out his own casket, made all his funeral arrangements and started writing his obituary Sept. 14 to spread the word of Jesus Christ, share his love for his wife and four daughters — and share his laid-back style of humor.

“I am writing this obituary, while still alive … so my family doesn’t have to go through this,” he wrote in the obit published in The State on Saturday, two days after he died. He was 58.

“My funeral will be held Monday at 2 p.m. … at Faith Presbyterian Church with interment immediately thereafter in Bush River Road Memorial Gardens. Sorry to have you driving all over the place from the church to the cemetery, but it’s my funeral and I don’t want to hear any excuses for not staying for the interment!”

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A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her.

Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium Difficile, the Daily Record reported.

But she was saved after receiving a “faecal transplant” from her daughter, Winnifred.

The treatment involves liquidising a sample of faeces from a close relative of the patient, and feeding the liquid down a tube into the stomach.

The treatment restores the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process.

“When you tell people about the treatment, they wrinkle their noses,” Mrs McEwan told the Daily Record.

“But it’s not like they put it on a plate and have you eat it. You don’t ever see or smell a thing.

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To the untrained eye, they appear to be simple daubs that could have been created by a two year old. Which is precisely what they are.

But that didn’t stop the supposed experts falling over themselves to acclaim them.

The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings.

Freddie’s efforts, which include works using tomato ketchup composed while sitting on his high chair, were posted by his mother Estelle Lovatt on collector Charles Saatchi’s online gallery.

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I did a search for the Six Flags Cliff Hanger death I thought happened in the 80’s but found nothing.