Leave A Good Looking Corpse

A U.S. consumer group is up in arms over the lack of strong warnings on Botox and similar injections.

Uh, what?

Anybody who willingly injects paralysis inducing toxins into their skin for vanity purposes knows full well what the risk is, and gets what they deserve.

Public Citizen, the group with too much time on their hands and not enough sense to find a real cause, reviewed 180 reports submitted to the FDA by manufacturers involving patients injected with Botox or Myobloc. The reports detailed cases of muscle weakness, difficulty swallowing or aspiration pneumonia, a serious condition caused by breathing a foreign material into the lungs. There were 16 cases that resulted in death, including four involving children under 18. Minors getting Botox? They deserve to die, but only after the consenting parent is stabbed 60 to 70 times in the face with a Botox syringe.

Obviously, problems can occur if botulinum toxin spreads from the injection site to the esophagus, causing partial paralysis, or other parts of the body. Maybe it's better to have to go back for that second treatment rather than shoot up all at once?

Look kids, it's 2008. If we still need warnings about these things, we're just trying to tack a few more heartbeats onto lives that will find a way to end due to their own stupidity. Why not spend the time and resources helping the smart and the living?