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Hot Beer's avatar

I still manage the website for our local funeral operator. They are the only operator for our area in northern rural NSW so their data is untainted by crossover with other operators. I have had to extract ages from the funeral descriptions so I can output a Month/Year array by age since mid 2017. Following are the yearly totals;

2018 : 234

2019 : 279

2020 : 261

2021 : 260

2022 : 308

2023 : 316

2024 : 184 (to end of June)

So this year is shaping up to be even worse. When I sort by age bands, the signal is not so clear, the increase seem to be across all ages.

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Rosemary Marshall's avatar

It is so exasperating! I’ve started giving ‘cease and desist’ notices to pharmacies. I don’t know if it will do any good, but am now adding the Pharmacy Guild’s own guidelines of gaining informed consent to the document I’m handing out. These jabbers have no idea they are liable. They seem to think that because everyone else is doing it with seeming impunity that they will be alright. Bring on the day of reckoning!

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