suicide
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Suicide Rises in a Culture of Despair
Lost faith, broken families, and sedentary living are just some of the causes of tragedy.
Declining U.S. Life Expectancy Reflects Cultural Depravity
"We are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable."
'Your Call Is (Not) Very Important to Us...'
Veterans can't even get through to the VA's suicide hotline.
The Toll of Transgendered Suicide
Bradley Manning is but one of thousands who seek a way out.
No Margin for Terror
If Americans tuned in to the president's speech [Sunday] night hoping for a substantive, long-term strategy to defeat ISIS, they're still waiting. In a rare talk on terrorism (from an even rarer setting), the president managed to talk for 13 minutes without saying anything new. Backed into a corner by tragedies his failed policies helped create, President Obama tried to answer his critics on the administration's inadequate response to radical Islam. But after a familiar lecture on tolerance and gun control, all he accomplished was proving his opponents right.
New Study Shows Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide Increases Suicide Rates
Does legalizing physician-assisted suicide lead to a *drop* in the suicide rate? As counterintuitive as it sounds, some advocates of assisted suicide have been making this argument. A new academic study, however, shows the reverse to be true: legalizing physician-assisted suicide increases the total number of people committing suicide.
Ending Life Is Great; Saving It, Not So Much
Gov. Brown vetoes a bill meant to save lives.
Houston Still Has a Problem
Houston Mayor Annise Parker (D) promised not to make homosexuality an issue in her administration. Instead, she's made it *the* issue — around which everything else revolves. As the leader of the fourth largest city in America, Parker jumped at the chance to use her power in support of her own personal LGBT agenda. An open lesbian, the mayor has tried to bypass the laws on marriage, declared Valentine's Day "Freedom to Marry Day," and forced through the most radical piece of special rights legislation the city has ever seen.
Assisted Cultural Suicide
Liberal logic: Suicide by gun is bad. Suicide by doctor is good.
Permission to Die
California Could Become the Fifth State to Misidentify Suicide as a Medical Treatment
Affirming a Right to Die
Brittany Maynard was soon to die. The question was whether she could do so on her own terms, as a last act of autonomy. Dr. Lynette Cederquist, who regrets that Maynard had to move to Oregon in order to do so, is working with others to change California law to allow physician assistance in dying. Maynard, a 29-year-old newlywed, knew that her brain cancer would fill her final months with excruciating headaches, seizures, paralysis, loss of eyesight and the ability to speak. Radiation and chemotherapy would have purchased mere months. "I'm not killing myself," she said. "Cancer is killing me." She would not put her loved ones through her cancer's depredations. Advances in public health and medical capabilities for prolonging life — and dying — intensify interest in end-of-life issues. Reductions in heart disease and stroke have increased the number of people living to experience decrepitude's encroachments, including dementia.