Within the last five months, four beautiful students from Palo Alto, California, (home of Stanford University) killed themselves at a railroad crossing. These precious children were all students at Ha...
It's almost Halloween out West, and the coyotes are squealing and
the wolves are howling like they know something spooky comes this way.
We've got our own version of a spooky vampire Dracula castle ...
Down in the deepest valleyWhere Thor the Thunder god livesRising up in rain colorsThat's where castles come fromDown where rainbows beginRising up in rainbow colorsThat's where castles come fromDown i...
If you come to Arizona, and I hope you do, you want to visit Walnut Canyon National Monument on your way to the Grand Canyon.Hundreds of years ago, the Sinaqua people lived on the ledges and caves of ...
Desert Summer, White HeatI don't think there is a place as quiet as the Sonoran desert in summer noon. The temperature is an impossible 119 degree inferno in the shade but then, there is hardly any sh...
Fifteen years ago, Colorado's governor Richard Lamm got himself in trouble by saying elderly people have "a duty to die and get out of the way."Lamm knew how much end-of-life care costs. About one-thi...
Tombstone, Arizona, where the cowboys live, sets in the mountains and is known as the Town Too Tough to Die. It's down the road from Bisbee, where the hippies live, known as the Town Too High To Die.T...
In places like Oregon, the state of Washington, and the Netherlands where assisted suicide is legal, doctors are the ones who have to help with the killing. Many do not like the idea. It violates th...
People ask us here in Tucson, "How do you stand the 110 degree summer heat? " We desert rats think to ourselves –"What wimps for asking!" – yet our polite answer is, "We go up to the High Country!" Th...
People who argue in favor of assisted suicide and euthanasia often say they and others should not live if they are a burden and require help in feeding and self-care. They say that such a life lacks d...
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