“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.