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“Upon arrival, many new elephants, still plagued by paranoia and lack of trust, take weeks before they will lie down,” the rescue wrote. “However, Grandma Somboon defied the norm. Exhausted from her journey and a lifetime of hardship, she promptly sought the sand pile prepared for her, sleeping soundly amidst the bustling activities around her.”

Somboon spent her whole life standing, and when she finally arrived somewhere she knew she was loved, she was so excited to finally get off her feet and have a rest.

A daughter is opening up about the chilling way she learned that her mother traveled to Switzerland to end her life without their family’s knowledge.

On July 8, Maureen Slough — a 58-year-old from Cavan, Ireland — told her family she was going on vacation to Lithuania with a friend. However, she confided in two friends that she was actually traveling alone to Switzerland.

The following day, her daughter Megan Royal was contacted by one of her mother’s friends with concerns about her real plans.

“A close friend of hers messaged me on the Wednesday night, possibly at like 10 p.m. I was in bed with the baby,” Royal, a mom of two, recalled to the Irish Independent. “He just replied like, ‘Your mom’s in Switzerland.’ He’s like, ‘You have a right to know. I was sworn to secrecy. She’s there and she wants assisted suicide.’ I was so scared in that moment.”

Royal said she immediately called her dad, who tried to contact her mother in Switzerland. She said Slough ultimately promised that she would return home. However, the following day around 1 p.m. she received a text message on WhatsApp informing her that her mother had died.

“What was worse was not only did I get the text on WhatsApp, they had advised me that her ashes would be posted to me in 6-8 weeks,” she said. “In that very moment, because I was alone, I just sat there with the baby and cried… I just felt like my world ended.”

Royal explained that the text message came from Pegasos, an assisted dying nonprofit organization in Liestal, Switzerland. She learned that Slough had quietly filed an application and paid £15,000 to end her life.

Assisted suicide has been legal in Switzerland since 1942, according to Dignity in Dying, a British organization. ​​It's different from euthanasia — which is illegal — because the patients themselves administer prescribed drugs to end their lives, rather than a doctor.

Following Slough’s death, her family is now looking for answers as to how the assisted suicide happened without their knowledge.

Royal described her mother as a “fiery, smart and dedicated woman.” However, she told the outlet that Slough had a long history of mental illness and even had a past suicide attempt while struggling to cope with the deaths of her two younger sisters.

It’s Wiggle Hard, I’ve been ok how are you guys doing? Little awkward checking out things here again since the fallout but hey that’s life. I’ve been writing a book lately, I’ve got 17 arcs of anime and it’s all original. Other than that I’ve been working out, got flipped off by an angry driver and shoved my penis inside of some strange people. To everyone, i miss you, even the haters. Sorry for all the shit i talked but i remain firm that i never doxxed a soul. No hard feelings Alice, i think i probably could’ve handled things differently than burn bridges and go scorched earth. Let’s see what else is up, oh yeah my brother has cancer so that’s cool and I’m currently trying to hit on a girl that works at a circle k but I’m very shy at times. I wrote her a note with my socials cz im lame and shit small pieces of corn but here’s the kicker, the note is still folded in my pocket…….. I’M LAME!! . Ummm what else, oh yeah i bought a brand new Mitsubishi outlander sport cz I’ve got soccer mom energy. I popped a zit on my ass earlier and wiped it onto a hotel pillow case. Gained 40 lbs and lost 35 and packed on muscle a little. My ex wife showed up at my job demanding money so i called the cops and its official, she’s gotten uglier and fatter so I’m winning. What else… 600 lbs of stuff fell on my leg and i sprained my knee. My farts are super stinky lately and for the first time in twenty years I’m wearing deodorant cz my BO toxic apparently. I stopped using deodorant when I was 16 because I heard it caused cancer. Oh yeah, I’m getting older. I have white hairs in my mustache and beard and hair now. My female manager who is a thick Latina hit on me a bit yesterday but i think I’ll pass because she’s my boss. I quit drinking alcohol and stopped drinking sugary drinks so that’s a big L for diabetes. Anyways that’s all, take care everyone, im on patriots.win, minds.com and twitter and your moms bed linen.

A funeral director who took babies’ bodies home with her has been banned from maternity wards and morgues in Leeds.

Amie Upton, 38, placed one deceased infant in a baby bouncer in front of her TV so he could ‘watch cartoons’, according to one traumatised mum.

Zoe Ward, 32, said the sight of her son, Bleu, who was just three weeks old when he died of brain damage in 2021, propped up at Ms Upton’s home was ‘terrifying’.

Another couple who learned their stillborn daughter’s body had been taken home by Ms Upton said: ‘It was just crazy. If I told somebody of this story… they’d think it was a horror film.’

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust banned Ms Upton from all its mortuaries and maternity wards earlier this year, a BBC investigation revealed.

Zoe said she contacted Ms Upton’s baby loss support and funeral service, Florrie’s Army, to arrange Bleu’s funeral.

Florrie’s Army says it supports bereaved parents and offers free handprints, photographs, baby clothing and a dedicated funeral service.

Speaking to the BBC, Zoe described speaking with Ms Upton and coming away confident that the service would be ‘brilliant’.

But when it came to meeting face to face, she said she was ‘terrified’ to find him positioned in front of the television in Ms Upton’s living room.

‘She [Ms Upton] says: “Come in, we’re watching PJ Masks”,’ Zoe said.

‘There was another [dead] baby on the sofa. It wasn’t a nice sight.’

She said she called her own mum ‘screaming’ before another funeral director was asked to come and collect Bleu’s body.

Zoe said the ‘weird’ experience made her ‘upset and angry’.

The funeral industry in England and Wales is unregulated, with no legal requirements on how bodies should be stored or qualifications required to become a funeral director.

Earlier this year, an inquiry urged the government to introduce statutory regulations to protect the ‘security and dignity’ of people after death.

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A probationary firefighter at a rural fire department in Missouri had a unique experience when responding to her first fire on Monday.

The Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District, located in the very small town of Doolittle, said it has one vegan, and that happens to be Jenna Ulrich – a new firefighter whose father is also a firefighter.

Ulrich was working on Monday morning when the department received a call reporting a tractor-trailer on fire on Interstate 174 eastbound.

The catch? The truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of ribeye steaks.

Ulrich was stationed on the hose line during the ordeal and can be seen spraying water on the beefed-up inferno in the video posted online by the department.

Her dad, Glenn, was working alongside her.

"Nothing says ‘welcome to the fire service’ like sending the probie to put out 40,000 pounds of flaming ribeye!" the district joked on Facebook.

Arizona police on Friday released new details about the fatal May drowning of influencer Emilie Kiser’s 3-year-old son, including allegations that her husband placed a $25 bet on an NBA playoff game before the tragic incident.

Brady Kiser, the husband of the parenting influencer, was home with the couple’s two sons while his wife was out with friends on May 12 when Trigger drowned in the family’s backyard pool, according to the Chandler Police Department report unsealed on Friday. The report states that the toddler was in the pool for around seven minutes before Kiser found him unconscious and took him out of the water. He died in the hospital six days later.

Police initially recommended that Kiser be charged with one count of child abuse, but the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office later determined that he would not face charges because there was “no reasonable likelihood of conviction.”

A transgender bus driver took her own life by jumping in front of a train after colleagues kept referring to her as male.

Ava Michal Hudson, 27, died on August 7 last year on her way to work at the Chicago Transit Authority, while in her uniform.

She didn't leave a note and gave no indication she was suicidal before suddenly leaping to her death, just four days after attending her brother's wedding.

'Sadly, we’ll never fully know the reason for her death, but the pain left behind after her sudden departure has been acute,' her family wrote in her obituary.

'She has already been mourned by many, many friends and relatives across the globe. She will be very much missed and never forgotten.'

Hudson got her bus license just seven months earlier, last January, and passed probation weeks before her death, proudly announcing it in her final Facebook post.

The new job was a turning point for Hudson after several years of struggling with her gender and unemployment after graduating from Wheaton College in 2020.

Transition costs were expensive, running to $875 a month according to a 2022 court petition to legally change her name, plus more for counseling.

Her $61,000 bus driver salary finally allowed for expensive procedures and gave her financial independence for the first time.

'The day she got her CDL driver’s permit in November 2023 was one of the happiest days of her later life and things finally started to take a turn for the better,' her obituary read.

'She often called or texted photos to her family during breaks on her bus routes.'

But the job never quite fit - both literally, with a boxy uniform that led to passengers innocently calling her 'sir', and her isolation in the role.

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A third of Buddhist monks tested positive for meth during a surprise raid at a temple in northern Thailand.

Six of 18 clergymen were kicked out of the monkhood after failing drug tests at the Wat Prathom temple in Phichit Province on Monday.

Thirty cops stormed the place of worship as the monks were observing the annual Buddhist 'Rains Retreat'. They found meth pills hidden in the monks' quarters, as well as numerous drug consumption paraphernalia, a homemade gun, and a number of bullets.

Deputy Phichit Governor Kitipon Wetchakul who led the raid said: 'The six monks found positive for drugs were immediately disrobed and sent for rehabilitation. The operation was carried out simultaneously in various temples across 12 districts of the province.'

A one-year-old boy in Bihar's Bettiah village bit a cobra to death after the snake reportedly coiled around his hand while he was playing near his home. The child, identified as Govinda, fell unconscious shortly after and was rushed to the hospital.

Locals said the cobra had slithered too close, possibly agitating the infant. In what they described as a reflexive act, the child sank his teeth into the snake, killing it instantly.