I've taken more old people to the hospital than I can count over the years. Most, of course, want to go. Others, however, are nearing the end of their lives and know it. They don't want any intervention and are only going because their family is pressuring them. Often we are called to just get them out of the house before they die there. Some patients have even begged me to just shoot them. What ever happened to our society where people can't accept that we all are going to die? What's wrong with dying at home in the same way we've done for ever? Obviously if someone is in the hospital there is something of an obligation to "do something" especially with a bunch of unrealistic relatives there bothering the doctors and nurses. I'm not particularly in favour of assisted suicide, however I'm very much in favour of making someone very comfortable with large doses of pain medications (morphine, marijuana, anything that works) until they take their last breath. Dying is not easy and I've recently had to go through the death of one of my parents. It was heart wrenching. But it was even worse seeing my loved one take too long to die. It was his choice to extend his life and it wasn't my place to interfere (much). But if I were in his place I never would have gone down that path. I would have taken the faster, natural way and let nature take its course without any life-extending interventions. Fortunately his health costs were covered but they amounted to near a $100,000 which would have left my mother in a bad state if she had had to pay that. I don't know how people can take from their survivor's estates to merely put off the inevitable and at the same time inflict torture on the patient in question. I've never understood the selfishness involved in keeping someone alive at ridiculous expense, taking up a hospital bed that could better be used by someone who really needs it, and torturing their loved one at the same time. I know people who think it's the thin edge of the wedge before the pressure is on to kill all the "old and useless", but I think that's a really weak argument against letting people die with dignity.

This is a Halloween joke right? Tell me this is a Halloween joke like an April FOols joke.

It's happening again. Americans are bailing out and buying property in Canada to save their life-time investments from falling through the floor. Prince Edward Island is the place they are flocking to. Almost half of all properties, and most of the waterfront, is owned by Americans already. Not necessarily as places to live but just vacation homes and places to go when the end arrives south of the border. It's just a matter of time. How much longer can Americans keep borrowing and not paying back? It doesn't matter which government is in power, there's nothing that can be done to save that country.

Yep, it's slower all right. Normally I never get the first version of any new release (anything with .0 after it). But this one really pissed me off. All the notification offer said was "Upgrade available" without giving any indication of what it was. I thought it was another security upgrade, not a version upgrade. o it took forever to download. It turned out to be iOS7. It sucks. It's not only ugly but incredibly slow. I have the latest and greatest iPad. I need to find out how to go back to the old system.

I'd be OK with usage caps or extra charges over a set data amount if the bastards would give me a refund for data I DIDN'T use. If I only use half my monthly entitlement I want them to automatically give me a 50% refund.

Instead of getting part of your income from advertising, get all of it from advertising. You will then get a better distribution probably ten times more, and the advertisers will get a better deal than they otherwise would have. Everyone wins.

Gee, this couldn't have anything to with all of the idiot (yes they are all idiots) Americans having guns and ammo in their houses, would it? If I was cop I'd be afraid to enter most of these places myself. How many officers have been killed just for doing their job? I'm all for the SWAT approach. Get rid of the household appliances (guns) and you'll get a more humane constabulary. And, no, you paranoids, you won't end up with a police state.