[horacemorace]

Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.

[eth0up]

Beware of strongyloids. Or apparently to maintain complexity of taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongyliasis

Or rat (snail/slug) lungworm

[EdwardDiego]

A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.

[latexr]

I heard about that when it happened, but hadn’t realised it took nine years with a coma, paralysis, and seizures. It must’ve been horrifying for everyone involved, including the mates who dared him.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teen-paralysed-even...

[sashank_1509]

Touchy subject and Im not commenting on this specific case that I have no idea about, but for this class of cases (ruptured spine, paralysis, coma) MAID seems better than prolonging life, especially if there’s no hope for full healthy recovery.

[latexr]

Perhaps they considered it, laws pertaining to it seem to be quite recent in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_and_assisted_suicid...

[hedgehog]

Any article with headings "Eye invasion" and "Lumbar puncture" is bound to be a good time.