Dying on your own terms when you're in miserable pain and just a step short of that eternal portal is, after all, the humane thing to do. The dignified thing to do.

If it weren't for the cops, I'd want Louise to pull the trigger.

Jerry and Ellen Gilland were married in 1969, two years before Louise and I tied the knot, them in Florida and us in Detroit. They bounced around Florida for a few years, living in Sorrento, Mount Plymouth, and Orlando before settling in New Smyrna Beach where they lived when Jerry started getting really sick.

Really sick as in terminally ill. They tried to handle his illness at home, but around Christmas Jerry started going downhill fast. He told Ellen he couldn't handle the situation and planned to shoot himself to end it all when things got so bad there was no point in continuing to live, infirm and in pain. After 52 years of marriage, Ellen understood.

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "This is Not How Americans Should Have to Die" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Why New Smyrna Beach, Florida's Ellen Gilland shot Jerry Gilland at AdventHealth Daytona Beach" by Abdel Jibri Omar.

Site: "Death With Dignity.

Article: "States" by Death With Dignity.

Article: "Montana" by Death With Dignity.

Article: "Oregon" by Death With Dignity.

Article: "We All Deserve a Death With Dignity" by Jordan G. Teicher.

Article: "Majority of Americans Remain Supportive of Euthanasia" by Jade Wood and Justin McCarthy.

Article: "Wife Fatally Shot Terminally Ill Husband in Florida Hospital, Police Say" by Eduardo Medina.

Article: "GOP Stands Up to a Week of "Heedless Progressivism"" by Muffintop1.

Tweet: "Holy shit. Top Republican Jim Banks just indicated he wants to find a way to stop "young ladies" from "hopping in a car" to travel to another state for reproductive care. He agreed the fact that women can travel for care means "the fight is far from over." [video]" by No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen.

Article: "Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Article: "'Information war': New 'Fox News in Spanish' right-wing network targets Latino voters" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "About Recently Arrested Charles McGonigal, former FBI Official for New York field office..." by Joinfortmill.

Article: "The FBI's New York Office Really Hated Hillary Clinton" by Kevin Drum.

Article: "Former top FBI official accused of taking cash from Putin ally to investigate rival" by Hugo Lowell and Martin Pengelly.

Article: "Endgame: How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle" by Ava Kofman.

Article: "How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle" by Ava Kofman.

Article: "Oregon Legalizes Human Composting and Water Cremation for the Departed" by Sophie Hirsh.

Poem: "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Article: "Atlanta DA doesn't want the public to see the special grand jury report into Trump's efforts to overturn Georgia's 2020 vote" by Jacob Shamsian.

Article: "Muir asks Pence: Did you take classified documents from the White House?" by Morgan Winsor.

Article: "Classified documents found at Mike Pence's home and turned over to DOJ: Sources" by Katherine Faulders, John Santucci, Alexander Mallin, and Luke Barr.

Article: "Who is DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith?" by Dustin Jones.

Article: "Kosovo rebel commander sentenced to 26 years in prison for war crimes in case overseen by the special counsel named in the Trump probe" by Evan Perez.

Article: "Fani Willis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ending The Social Security Tax Break For The Rich" by David Sirota.

Article: "National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform" (Bowles-Simpson/Simpson-Bowles) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Greenspan Commission" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Peter DeFazio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The tea party radio network" by Kenneth P. Vogel and Mackenzie Weinger.

Article: "A Brief History Of Car Colors — And Why Are We So Boring Now?" by Mary Beth Quirk.

Article: "Army major and doctor wife charged in plot to give U.S. military medical info to Russians to help in war against Ukraine" by Dan Mangan, Kevin Breuninger.

Article: "Gun Rights: Top Recipients" by Open Secrets.

Article: "At least 7 dead in Half Moon Bay shooting" by TuAnh Dam, Sri Ravipati.

Article: "What we know about the Monterey Park mass shooting" by Ivana Saric.

Article: "Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?" by Jeremy Adam Smith.

Article: "Is This the Democrats Secret Plan to Get Rid of Joe Biden?" by Harrison Kass.

Article: "There was Trump-Russia collusion — and Trump pardoned the colluder" by Marik von Rennenkampff.

Article: "They came for blood: Trump's terror mob were there to kill Pence, Pelosi, someone" by David Cay Johnston.

Site: No One Should Die Alone Foundation.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren slams Republicans for creating 'economic chaos' to protect the rich" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Depleted Under Trump, a ‘Traumatized' E.P.A. Struggles With Its Mission" by Lisa Friedman.

Article: "AZ-Sen: Why Wait? Ambassador Sinema = Senator Gallego NOW" by JTP42.

Article: "Wisconsin Republicans block ban on ‘conversion therapy'" by AP.

Article: "A 6-year-old shot his teacher in Virginia 2 weeks ago: What we know as family, authorities release more information" by Jeanine Santucci.

Article: "Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates than Democratic ones: study" by Ben Adler.

Article: "Healthcare Power of Attorney (HCPA): Definition and How To Set Up" by Carla Tardi.

Article: "Turkey's president says no support for Sweden's NATO bid" by Zeynep Bilginsoy.

Article: "U.S. Says Finland, Sweden Are Ready to Join NATO Alliance" by Reuters.

Article: "Turkey's Erdogan Threatens to Block Sweden's NATO Entrance Over Quran Burning" by Jared Malsin, Sune Engel Rasmussen.

Book: Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation, rev. ed. by Ian Stevenson M.D.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Stephen Bezruchka, Associate Teaching Professor-University of Washington School of Public Health / Previously a practicing emergency physician / Serves on the board of WA Physicians for Social Responsibility / Author of the new book, Inequality Kills Us All: Covid 19's Health Lessons for the World (has also authored several books about trekking in Nepal)

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