About half a year.

School, work, and personal problems are always the cause.

Except that's what being terminally ill means, there's no cure or treatment of any kind to prevent you from dying. Just because you let someone go due to them having an incurable disease or condition doesn't make you a quitter.

The reasons to why the NHS is underfunded is a big deal. You brought it up after all.

Your complaint that the U.K. healthcare is inadequate and falling short is due to U.K. conservative policies. The U.K.'s healthcare system wouldn't be facing these problems if it weren't for spending cuts made by conservative policies.

@Jacanuk:

When you're terminally ill, that means there is no treatment of any kind that can cure you. Saying that someone is terminally ill while saying that they still "have a chance" is a complete contradiction.

The problems the NHS is facing is the result of conservative policies in the U.K., who have cut funding and have privatized some parts of it.

Charlie Gard was terminally ill and was going to die anyway. The NHS is not underfunded either, it has a budget of over £120 billion.

NHS Budget and Future Projection

Every first-world industrialized country has universal healthcare, and it works.

At no point ever have we seen people in the U.K., France, Germany, Australia, Japan, or South Korea protesting and demanding that their healthcare be privatized, and or declaring that universal healthcare is a "government takeover." Why? Because it never fucking happened, and that stupid notion is why America will never follow the model.

Plus, even if America adopted universal healthcare, I guarantee you there would be a good percentage of Americans that would take it as "selling out" or being "un-American." Because every country in the world is small, weak, wimpy, and stupid and America is #1 in everything and we have to keep believing in that stance because we helped win a war over 70 years ago.

As long as Steam is around and generating millions, there will never be another Half-Life.

That's the unfortunate truth, Valve is a business first, and they're going to stay the course on what's generating revenue for them.

The irony is that a new Half-Life would also generate millions in revenue.

Gamer logic: Optional same-sex relationships are why this game didn't turn out that good.

Yeah, it had nothing to with major franchise being handled by an inexperienced developer.

Fallout 4. Bought it when it first came out at $60, and paid $30 for the season pass when it was on sale.