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By: Compassion & Choices » The Newest Star of Human Liberty

Compassion & Choices » The Newest Star of Human Liberty — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:33:07 +0000

[...] their doctor to help them to a humane and peaceful death? Today Compassion & Choices as well as our opponents on the other side of this question recognize the stars are aligned to make it an emerging focal [...]

By: Barbara Coombs Lee: The Newest Star of Human Liberty | Obama Biden White House

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:27:36 +0000

By: Jay Dackman

Jay Dackman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:27:02 +0000

Your words very eloquently capture the death with dignity movement along with my feelings towards my personal choices and liberties. If I may, I will use your words at out next chapter meeting to help inspire our members and help them see the path and destination we are heading.

Thankyou Barbara.

By: Gail Rendle

Gail Rendle — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:58:54 +0000

A “New Awakening” is long overdue. I have become so disgusted with the interference of so-called orthodox religions, and fundamentalism, grabbing for the helm to steer our country away from religious tolerance and separation of church and state, which are some of the basic founding features of this country, that I have decided to drop out of the church I was raised in, and seek a new path. In checking the internet, I see that there are many, many others who are also tired of “the righteous sector” making decisions for all of us. There is much material available, at the bookstore and on the internet, to help a person find his way in this regard.

(That “his”, by the way, is a “gender collective” pronoun, which is how the masculine collective pronoun is MEANT in the bible and other older written material. It, as well as the other masculine pronouns, refers not to “men only”, but to “human-kind”.)

I like Thomas Jefferson’s attitude. He said that another person’s religion or activity is not his worry or his business, if it “neither robs my purse nor breaks my leg”. This is where “Right-to-life” has no leg to stand on - if someone didn’t tell them that their neighbor had had an abortion, they would be totally unaware of it - it would neither rob their purses, nor break their legs. Right?

By: Paul Holmgren

Paul Holmgren — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:37:51 +0000

Those who oppose personal choice in something as important as dying share the irrational pronouncements of the Taliban and, in past centuries, institutions which insisted that the earth was flat….

I certainly hope that humans will, over time, move toward acceptance of the inevitable process of death and dying.