The Most Insane True Story You’ll Want To Tell Everyone MrBallen ~ Chris Williamson

Another quick story. Let's do it. I got another one that this one, so somebody bootleg like filmed a portion of this live show I did last year, which is fine. I'm not going to do anything about it. Because anyway, so there's a portion they filmed where I got to see on this video, the actual reaction to this one particular reveal. And it was like so much. It was way more than the lamp, frankly. This one, because it's so weird. Anyways, I haven't prepped this one, but I know it really well. So I can get it close. Hit it. All right. So it was in 2011. And there's this woman named Ellie Lobel. She's 42 years old. And she decided, I think it was December 11th, 2011. She decided enough is enough. It's time for me to die. So Ellie, her background was she was brilliant. I mean, she went to an Ivy league school. I think it was, she, she had her PhD by 18 and then she got into, I think consulting, I forget what her job was, but it was like a hyper successful woman, like hyper successful, killing it, like crazy salary. But she came down with this mysterious illness sometime in her, I want to say her 30s, early 30s. So she's 42. It was late 20s. She comes down with this illness. And she's married. She's got kids. She lives in Southern California. And it wasn't like the illness – doctors didn't even know what the illness was. She was just like fatigued. And she didn't feel that good. But there was nothing specific. And so every time she would go to the doctor – The doctors would run a battery of tests and basically say, oh, you know, you're low on this vitamin or you need more sunlight or you need this, you need that. Like there wasn't anything specific. It was just kind of this malaise she had where she just always felt kind of down. But for years and years, she just always felt terrible and it started affecting her career and she had to step back from her career. And then actually she got this like horrible divorce with her husband who frankly, if I'm being candid, sounds like he was kind of a jerk because he immediately was like, oh, I'm out of here now that you're sick. So they split up. And so she's raising her kids on her own. She's got this chronic illness. And it's getting worse, not in leaps and bounds, but it's definitely not improving. She's becoming more and more ill. She's spending more days in bed. And so finally, come December 11, 2011, by this point, her kids have moved out of the house. They are successful. They're in their 20s. They have their partners. They have their jobs. And she's still single. And she's just at the end of her ability to cope with whatever was going on with her. And she decided, you know what? I'm done. I want to go die. And so she actually hired an end of life care person. I forget the title. I forget specifically what this job is, but you can hire people to basically be with you while you die, like you end your life. And for what it's worth, it's important to note that By this point in 2011, doctors had told her that like your organs are actually starting to shut down. And frankly, if you were to kind of mentally let go, there's a pretty good chance your body would shut down. Like it's kind of on you at this point