How much to lose your legs??

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I'll set the YABU/ YANBU rate to £10m. YABU still keeping them, they're mine. YANBU already picking out wheelchairs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75r21ww30vo
Assuming there is truth to this - WTF??? Even rolling myself up to £50m I'm in visceral horror. The money is only useful in my opinion if you can cycle, run, climb steps to change a lightbulb, play football with your kids, and feel your legs there anytime you want.

So do you have a limit?

The hospital trust are saying he's not done anything unprofessional toward patients...

I think he's become obsessed with being an amputee, given himself sepsis perhaps...

I am confused about the grievous bodily harm and the encouraging someone to harm others - is that getting someone to lop off his legs, or encouraging someone to lop off someone elses body parts entirely?

I doubt the money was the driving factor though - the mental illness that leads him to think he should be an amputee is the major factor.

As for legs - you can have mine, they're mostly in the way and generally useless and without them id be under the weight limit for a stair lift which would be significantly more reliable than the existing legs. I'll do you them for a few million.

But I am already a wheelchair user, and they are causing me issues. I guess its a very different story if you have fully function legs and like running about!

Where have you found a link between this and the trans community?

I’ve read several articles which suggest he injured his legs to induce the sepsis. Mind blowing.

I worked for many years dealing with personal injury claims. Me and my colleagues were very firmly of the view that the compensation was never worth it for practically any injury. Money is the only thing on offer obvs and that doesn't buy you physical or mental health

My DH has a theory that in France there is a lot of pinky finger amputee fraud 😂 this is because he claims he sees many men with only four fingers. I would not be surprised if you can have some sort of insurance payout for life for it tbh so maybe it’s a thing!!!

back to the whole legs - no amount of money for me. Also how grim- how can you have a fetish about this honestly. People are mentally unwell!!!

For him, the money isn’t the driver.

Its all about the attention (didn’t he win an award for being so brave and is constantly fundraising etc) and he obviously has some sort of fetish too.

That's what I thought

No amount of money.

Every time I think I have forgotten about this group of freaks, another strand of the story appears in the press.

The sentencing remarks of Marius Gustavsin et al are grim reading

www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-v-marius-gustavson-and-others/

I doubt he removed them himself! Amputating a limb is a difficult procedure which at the very least would require a spinal block, then there’s the ligation of arteries, sawing through bone all of which even with expert knowledge would be hard to perform on yourself! I suspect it will come out he’s part of a dark web cult and no doubt there will be other names from the medical profession come out!

That's quite the own goal.

I’m guessing the press can only report so much before it goes to trial. I’m willing to bet he was some kind of amputation fetishist. The whole thing of paying to watch videos of it seems like that. I think all the sympathy, awards and money was a nice bonus.

Oh he was part of this group - that is grim stuff.

It’s absolutely foul and disturbing

The bland NHS statement sounds like a tick box. They've had no complaints obviously. Certainly doesn't mean there was no malpractice.

The Atlantic article posted above talks about the whole spectrum from this kind of thing to trans angle (not a subset of that, just making connections, asking questions etc). It’s not about this case but pretty in-depth about the bigger picture. Thanks to the pp for posting it, interesting read.

I can't imagine any world where I'd agree to amputate my limbs unless it was life-saving.

Mine don't work very well but to all those idiots who think the benefits you get are worth having a disability, take it from me they're not.

Sounds odd.

No, I tried it and it didn’t work for me because of my varifocal glasses. I can type with my elbow or use one of the many voice typing accessibility options. For short messages my elbow results in fewer corrections!

No amount of money. My 5 year old son heartbreakingly had his leg amputated a few years ago and I see his struggles and pain every single day.

You are absolutely right: you can manage a lot more without legs than you can without hands. I say this with authority, having lost both! Your hands are so versatile that nothing can replace them. prosthetic legs (below knee) more or less can replace normal legs, with the restrictions of discomfort, needing to balance, and extra effort. Nothing replaces hands.

I’m sorry, but I really do have to ask… is that his real name? Or has he changed it to match with his interests somewhere down the line? Neil (kneel) …Hopper… really? Come on, that’s too much of a coincidence surely?

Bizarre. And horrific.
No amount of money.
Money is not more important than having a healthy body.

£466,000 is less than 5 years salary for a consultant NHS surgeon. So whatever this man did it for it was not the money.

This is so weird. And such a brief article! So much detail missing!

His name probably came up when they started investigating The Eunuch Maker as he'd paid for videos and encouraged Marius Gustavson to amputate people's limbs. There will have an email and transaction trail.
Then police will have connected this with him having his own legs amputated and they will have investigated him further.

Crazy story. Sadly, it doesn't even shock me anymore. The lengths some people will go to for a cheap thrill.
Weirdo.
His poor patients have my sympathy.