This spate of living will talk clusters around April 16, Health Care Decisions Day, following April 15 tax day.
When the Terry Schiavo case became national news in 2005, discussions took place among families, friends, even co-workers, about how we would want to be treated in similar circumstances. Arguments flared about whether Schiavo's husband or her parents should determine her fate. Unable to communicate her own end-of-life choices, and without anything in writing, the legal case had dragged on for years..........
Decide how to spend your final days
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama may think that some voters "cling" to their guns and their religion out of bitterness and frustration, but the folks at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee seem content to woo those candidates and appeal to those voters.
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In the Alabama 5th district open seat being vacated by conservative Democratic Rep. Bud Cramer, the Democratic frontrunner appears to be state Sen. Parker Griffith. When I interviewed him earlier this week, he called himself "pro-life," "pro-gun" and "pro-traditional marriage."
Griffith's positions aren't surprising, of course, given Cramer's record. CQ's Politics in America 2008 described Cramer as "one of the most conservative Democrats in the House" and "among the Democrats supporting the conservative-led effort to intervene in the right-to-die legal case of Terri Schiavo."....
Dem Candidates Scoring Well With 'Bitter' Voters
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