If anyone of us were to encounter a dying person on a road and demand payment in order to help them, we would be the object of scorn and criticism. When pharmaceutical companies withhold medication to HIV/AIDS patients, which is certainly a parallel, most of us accept it. Former president Clinton has announced a deal…

The nursing wing of a convent in Rochester, New York is giving us much to think about in terms of end of life decisions. Most of the sisters there face death openly by refusing certain type of treatments when those treatments would not necessarily improve their condition. “We approach our living and our dying in…

In South Florida you can ostensibly get fired for marrying someone in the porn industry. Scott Janke was fired “without cause” for just that. In the same way he’s been for years in both Florida and Alaska, he was the town manager of Fort Myers Beach, a town of about 6500. Last October he married…