“Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.”
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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.
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.
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.