Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Hmm, three states Oregon, Washington & Montana accept the Right to Die - Physician Assisted Suicide in those cases with a "life threatening" medical condition. I maintain 'old age' is a life threatening medical condition. We should be able to choose to die when we are old.
ReplyDeleteSame sex marriage is doing a bit better with Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia on board (and the Coqville Indian tribe in Oregon)
Ironically I don't want a 'death panel' decision rendered to me - I prefer to wheel my own chair over the cliff, thank you.
Interestingly there are no states which support both the right to die and same sex marriage. "Curiouser and curiouser..."
I agree with you completely on the right to die. That's so important.... I'd want to pick my own time and place rather than be drooling and alone in an anonymous hospital somewhere.
ReplyDeleteBut then, who needs Medicare when we've got the Rapture!!!