[keithtoo]

The reaction to every trajedy that life throw's at us should not be another Federal program. This is a trajedy, but it is a private trajedy, or at most, a situation where voluntary associations of people can join with one another.

It truly is sick when all of life's foible result in a loss of freedom thru government intrusion.

[keithtoo]

trajedy should be tragedy, sorry. Maybe a Federal program is needed. Think of the children.

[FBD]

"Oregon Senator Grieves Over Son's Suicide"

This event is six months old, and this article title wouls seem to indicate otherwise.

"It's been six months, and it's time to find more meaning and help others who suffered like he did,"' Gordon Smith said after speaking in favor of a bill on suicide prevention.

-The HHS already sucks up 40 percent of the 2.7 trillion dollar federal budget, and now some law makers want to add some more to it. The title of the article tells me that they are USING Senator Smiths tragic loss, to enlarge the HHS even more. I'm sorry for the Senaors loss, but we don't need more federal largess.

"The State...stands between me and my body, and tells me what kind of doctor I must employ. When my soul is sick, unlimited spiritual liberty is given me by the State.

~ "Now then, it doesn't seem logical that the State shall depart from this great policy...and take the other position in the matter of smaller consequences -- the health of the body....Whose property is my body? Probably mine....If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the State die? Oh, no.~
Mark Twain, in "Osteopathy," 1901