Embracing the Sting; Death by Insurance; Sermons on their Mind; Balfour Repentance; and Seeing Again (One Day)

Suicide

The right to die on one’s own terms: At 94, sick, tired and living alone, ‘Dad got the death he wanted’ news.nationalpost

Richard Brown wanted to die. An elderly widower who lived by himself in the same Vancouver house that he’d owned for decades, he wasn’t terminally ill. He wasn’t immobile. He had coronary heart disease and he’d endured painful episodes of gout. He’d been in hospital frequently.

Assisted-suicide law prompts insurance company to deny coverage to terminally ill California woman washingtontimes

Stephanie Packer, a wife and mother of four who was diagnosed with a terminal form of scleroderma scleroderma.org, said her insurance company initially indicated it would pay for her to switch to a different chemotherapy drug at the recommendation of her doctors.

But shortly after California’s End of Life Option Act, which authorizes physicians to diagnose a life-ending dose of medication to patients with a prognosis of six months or less to live, went into effect, Ms. Packer’s insurance company had a change of heart.

Society

State of Georgia demands 'pastor' turn over sermons foxnews

A lay minister who is suing the Georgia Department of Public Health georgia.gov for religious discrimination has been ordered by the state’s attorney general to relinquish his sermons to the government, according to federal court documents.

Walsh, a Seventh-day Adventist carm.org lay minister had been hired in May 2014 by as a District Health Director with the Georgia Department of Public Health. A week later, a government official asked him to submit copies of his sermons for review. He complied and two days later he was fired.

Antisemitisim

Israel slams House of Lords event where audience applauded blaming Jews for Holocaust timesofisrael v

The meeting on Tuesday kicked off a campaign by vehemently anti-Israel Baroness Jenny Tonge to demand that the UK government apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration jewishvirtuallibrary.org, which affirmed the right of the Jewish people to a homeland in then-Palestine.

Research

The brain can learn to "see" again after blindness, study finds cbsnews

So, does this mean we have found a cure for blindness? The answer is a decided “no.” But the work offers hope to researchers hoping to develop implants that can aid people who no longer have their vision. It helps answer the question of whether the brains of people who lost their vision could regain the ability to process “restored or artificial visual inputs,” the scientists explain in a press release.