There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
Jack Kevorkian

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
Jack Kevorkian

http://www.assistedsuicide.org/suicide_laws.html

http://www.apa.org/pi/eol/arguments.html

I struggle with the "no happy end to it" reference. It makes the journey that a couple might make sound so poignantly bleak at the end. But I can understand and accept the sentiment. My wife , Mary , is my number one priority as we face the latter part of our lives together. Mary is 52 and I'm 60; we have been married for 24 years and we have 3 daughters and 5 grand daughters. If my family were compared to a universe; then Mary would be the Sun in that universe. And no life happens in our universe without the Sun. That's just how important Mary is to me and what I think she means to our family. So the remarkable problems the American people are having with health care , concerns me very much. More because of my major concerns and worry; are for my wife.

We seem to have such remarkable problems challenging the American health care system. Yet we have absolutely unremarkable ability in our leaders will to challenge these current problems to the health care system. Our "dear leaders" are doing much talking but have very little in the line of remarkable solutions to offer the American people. In other words I feel our "dear leaders" are really fighting the American people to keep the status quo. And I thought that the status quo was the problem.

As a husband and a father I would always be prepared to sacrifice much for my family and it's well being. So now I know we'll have no public option offered the American people. So what about the personal option. By that I mean I would freely agree to accept some form of abbreviated medical coverage so that my wife would maintain more and better coverage. An example would be that I would only be covered for the routine stuff like common dental stuff like check ups and fillings. And on the medical side my coverage would cover common stuff like broken limbs , cuts , routine inoculations , colds and flu. I would agree to simply take my chances with serious and chronic conditions of the cancers , Alzheimer's , arthritis , and all the various blood diseases , and such. I would take the chance to help my family more. I and many other Fathers would be prepared to do the same thing if faced with remarkable challenges to their families.

Our "dear leaders" are covered if you check. Most to all of them are very well covered medically; as are their families. It's the Senators and the Congressional men and women who have some of the best "portfolios" there are. They can get on the phone and call , personally , some of the most powerful people in the world. The American people can't. So do we really expect these folks to solve the medical problems of treatment and care that the American people are having; when they are absolutely not? The American people would now not have issue with accepting that "class warfare" was for real; and we lost.

I took a remarkable chance with my life to volunteer for Viet Nam. And I did it because I was from a working class family and the only way I was going to be able to go to college was the GI Bill. It was a remarkable chance I took that paid off. I graduated from the University of Minnesota 1975. America and the American people are in remarkable trouble. Our "dear leaders" are not. And our "dear leaders" are so beholding they now lack the courage and commitment to do the right thing for the American people. More of our "dear leaders" should have come to Viet Nam with us; their decisions would be more in line with American standards of care and concern. So for now I feel our leaders are no more then "dear leaders".

You would have thought that when it came to solving some of the problems that the American people are having that some of the solutions would be as immediate and purposeful as when "Shitty Bank" or "Skank of America" got bailed out. You can't even get Barrack to give gay and American soldiers a fair break in our Armed services. The "don't ask don't tell" policy is un-American and unfair. What we should do is force our "dear leaders" into the closet and make them stay there. Our "dear leaders" are doing nothing but helping their "dear friends" and that's to the detriment of the American people.