personal control

: Interesting , all the people referred to as denigrating a choice of suicide for the elderly are not elderly.and are employed by. organizations dedicated to preventing suicide in the elderly. I would suggest such an article be written after a review of the attitudes of the elderly. At 92 i have spoken to many of my aged cohorts they are almost unanimously in favor of death by choice as opposed to being kept alive and in pain or stupor. The reasons for the prohibition of suicide is promulgated by religious groups and those who profit from the artificial lengthening of the journey to death, nursing homes, hospitals, drug manufactures and some medical practitioners. Parenthetically, if women can control their bodies and elect abortion, why in heck can't the elderly chose when and where to die.

Pissing tn the ocean....

  All of the posturing and gnashing of teeth by  ardent environmentalists , all the composing of waste, ignoring the benefits of carbon fuels ,all the turning down of the thermostats and separating garbage will not stop the inexorable pace of global warming,    The only thing we can try to do is ameliorate the effects, some efforts will involve massive engineering projects like protecting New York , it might  not be possible or even worthwhile, evacuating  large numbers of people from flooded land. providing new farmlands etc. All of the efforts might well be in vain  , the only sure thing is our world is going to change as it hasn't since the little ice age. The little feel good efforts have no affect like the title to this essay. Incidentally it took 700 years for the population of Europe to recover after the little ice age.