Thanks to Burke J. Balch, J.D., and Randall K. O’Bannon, M.A. You may find these thoughts of theirs helpful.

Proponents of physician-assisted suicide frequently begin by advocating its legalization for those who are terminally ill, although they have moved far beyond that category. But, as this article will demonstrate, 1) treatable depression, rather than the terminal illness itself, usually accounts for such a patient’s expression of a wish to die; 2) after a diagnosis of terminal illness, a person normally goes through a series of stages of coming to terms with impending death and resolving unfinished business in his or her life, a valuable process that is cut short by acceding to a depression-induced request for assistance in suicide; and 3) given growing pressures to contain medical costs and prevailing social attitudes, if assisting suicide is legalized, many terminally ill patients will be led to feel they are burdens and have a duty to die.
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I don’t like divorce at all. I believe many people just don’t know the real importance of marriage even before their planning of the wedding. To see them wed and later divorce is just as disgusting as a dog that vomits food it thinks was “nice stuff taken in.”

Whether you’re contemplating on having divorce or not, the following words will help you one way or another.

Divorce ends your marriage. Marriage is something you should build on a strong foundation, and true enough, every married person has invested so much wealth of whatever kind. In fact, divorce belittles the biggest investments in the marriage–the couple themselves.

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My patron in the PACLAND site named GEM PAC gave a nice thread which contains a clause that his friend Vir says to wit:  “Belts don’t make champions.”

Nice line and fitly said.  Belts, really, don’t necessarily mean that the holder is the real champ.  I think the boxing world has gone to a paradigm shift in which the championship belts of alphabet organizations have become secondary.  An intriguing example to attest to this is the case of the Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao.

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