I was shocked to see the note on NRO commemorating the one-year anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley Jr. It seems like just a few months ago that we were mourning our loss—just a short span of time, but one which has brought the deaths of so many fine thinkers, writers, and leaders. . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been following various aspects of the FEN activists’ arrests. But this aspect of the story really caught my attention. SHSers will recall that I mentioned the book A Chosen Death in a previous post, and how its author Lonny Shavelson watched a Hemlock operative kill “Gene” . . . . Continue Reading »
At the top of the list are I and we , which apparently date back tens of thousands of years. I don’t know about the way the researchers came to their conclusion—computer analysis of “the rate of change of words in English and the languages that share a common . . . . Continue Reading »
Jack Kevorkian, who painted the delightful picture above, helped kill people—other than Thomas Youk, who he lethally injected—via an assisted suicide machine in which the client flipped a switch opening the valve of a canister containing carbon monoxide. Yet, he has come out against the . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) has played a crafty game of pretense about the ultimate goals of its assisted suicide campaign. In debates (including those in which I have participated), in media interviews, in press releases, etc., its representatives have claimed that C and C . . . . Continue Reading »
Farhad Manjoo is impressed with the new Amazon Kindle. And that’s what makes him fear that Amazon’s book distribution plan could ruin the publishing industry and severely restrict public discourse: It’s hard not to love Amazon’s new e-book reader. For starters, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I posted this last year , but it’s so good I wanted to put it up again. A few years ago a friend of mine sent me these lyrics, which can be sung to the tune of “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.” Sackcloth and ashes and days without eating, Mortification and wailing and . . . . Continue Reading »
In the wake of the arrests of four assisted suicide activists from the Final Exit Network, I believe an effort will be made to cast them as fringe characters within the movement.Don’t believe it. One of the four is Ted Goodwin, who is the head of the FEN. Goodwin has been a stalwart in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Right is right and wrong is wrong—regardless of legality: Another hospital has opted out of Washington’s assisted suicide law. From the story: Sunnyside Community Hospital will not participate in the state’s new Death With Dignity Act that takes effect next week, a decision likely . . . . Continue Reading »
My find of the day was in the March 2005 Public Square—a William James poem that captures one difference between the sexes: Hogamous, higamous Man is polygamous Higamous, hogamous Woman monogamous. The poem may not have been James’ and he may not have been sober when composing it, but, . . . . Continue Reading »
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