More and more would be employers are using credit checks to determine the fitness of a potential employee. Sometimes a stack of resumes can be quickly whittled after credit checks are run on applicants, discarding those with too much debt, a bankruptcy filing or the like. Those who believe in their use say credit checks…

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…