Advance Directives

Some leaders prefer to confine us in childhood, so we need never acknowledge, grieve over or plan for our own deaths. A childish approach to end-of-life issues permeated the August recess.

Democrats don't want to "kill Granny," but Republicans want to ensure that "Granny" suffers needlessly in death, and that her family deals with the confusion of not knowing what "Granny" wanted.

I received a mass email that exhorted the recipients to pray because of the disaster to befall on us if health care reform is passed. I went through every charge and answered it.