Sep 10, 2014 | Ethics
Gillian Bennett, 85 years old, took her own life wishing that assisted suicide had been available to her. Bennett left behind her husband, two children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. "Today, now, I go cheerfully and so thankfully into that...
Aug 7, 2014 | Ethics
Bob Schieffer, of CBS News, recently lamented on the condition of the world. It’s gone mad, he said. Then he quoted Will Durant. “Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up...
Jul 4, 2014 | Ethics
Dave Meslin, activist,one of twelve people the Star named to watch for in 2012, is 40 this year, “celebrating four decades of adventure, exploration, creating, learning, growing, loving and being loved.” He has written a blog “I’d like you to...
Jun 30, 2014 | Ethics
Canada has lifted its ban on Burma this year and is inviting the Burmese to Canada Day celebrations. Foreign Affairs has decided that Burma need no longer be considered a pariah state. Relations have been warming up these past few years. In 2013, Canada...
Jun 17, 2014 | Ethics
I remember the morning my mom called and said it was time to pack up her home and move. She’d been living there for 60 years. My father had died more than a decade earlier. But now she felt she could no longer manage alone. She’d become tired of cooking...
May 29, 2014 | Ethics
Let's Bring Birth and Death Back Into the Circle of Life We are losing our connection to the cycle of life. Medicine has sanitized and sterilized our relationship, our intimacy with birth and death. There was a time when we brought new life into the world...
