Although free to pursue life, liberty and happiness, Americans discover that said freedoms (or what remains of them) does not extend to death. After winning a long court battle for the right to disconnect her breathing tube, the husband of a Florida woman fends off some last ditch attempts to intervene by both the U.S. President and Congress and allows her to die with dignity after 15 years in a “persistent vegetative state.” Still earlier in the year, a Canadian man organizes and attends his own wake, before returning home and quietly ending his life behind closed doors. I am not sure what the outcome of the ensuing police investigation into the potential for criminal charges was.
Jan 01