Governor Jerry Brown made California the fourth state in the US on Monday to allow physician assisted dying. Yes, only the fourth, and it's disappointing that the numbers (or the lack of) overshadow the real achievement. Everyone has the right to live, and everyone should have the right to die. Of course life is sacred, but the opponents of this law must not seriously think that California's true intentions are to have a genocide. They simply just want to help those people who have no hope of a cure, and are suffering. That's it, there is no story here, Everyone is allowed to make their decisions about their life and body. If you can go and get an abortion from a professional, you should also be able to go to your doctor to die. They are there to help you and to lessen your pain. In any way possible. Of course we support that background checks must take place, and several doctors (including psychologists) should sign off before you are allowed to die. You sho...
Associated Press Cancer affects everyone's lives. Even if you don't have it personally, almost everyone knows someone who had it. And many have lost loved ones to it. Cancer doesn't pick and choose, it just attacks. From the wealthiest to the poorest, it exists everywhere. Just in the past two weeks we lost three famous faces to it: David Bowie, Alan Rickman and Rene Angelil. And they are just a couple of the estimated 9 million people who died from it within the past year. Yes, more than the size of Austria. Sadly it is that staggering. It is now finally time to find a cure for it. President Obama, in his last State of the Union speech, has promised to make curing cancer a key priority for his last year in office. He said that the government is launching a new initiative, and is committed to make America the country that cures cancer. He likened the situation to space exploration and getting a man to the moon, describing the project as "moonshot". Presi...