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  • Brain Injury Survivor Has a New Life Mission
  • 6/28/2011
  • (Deseret News) - At a young age, Josh Morros became popular in Reno, Nev., for his motorcycle racing skills. At 16 years old he had already won a MRANN championship and was under contract with Kawasaki. In fact, the pros said he was the next big thing in the off-road motocross racing world. Back then for him, it was all about the win. In August 2008, Morros crashed during a high-speed racing competition near Wendover. He said, that's when his journey began. Morros writes this message on his Facebook page.
  • Woman 'Comes Back to Life' After Being Clinically Dead for 30 Minutes
  • 6/27/2011
  • (Fox News) - A British woman who was starved of oxygen for 30 minutes and given up for dead by her family made a miraculous return to life, in a case that left medics baffled. Jean McDonald was expected to die after doctors at Broomfield Hospital in Essex, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northeast of London, removed her breathing tube, the Braintree and Witham Times reported Wednesday.
  • At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope: Where Euthanasia Meets Organ Harvesting
  • 6/25/2011
  • (Weekly Standard) - In 1992, my friend Frances committed suicide on her 76th birthday. Frances was not terminally ill. She had been diagnosed with treatable leukemia and needed a hip replacement.
  • Bishops Approve First Major Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide
  • 6/24/2011
  • (CNS) - Taking on the issue of physician-assisted suicide in the state where voters most recently approved it, the U.S. bishops declared suicide "a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent."
  • Terri's Life & Hope Network June Newsletter!
  • 6/23/2011
  • (Terri's Network) - Along with the upcoming conference in Kansas City, Terri's Life & Hope Network has once again been asked to present the "Terri's Legacy" workshop at NRLC annaul conference. This year's conference will be in Jacksonville, FL. Fox News, Fred Barnes is slated to highlight a list of wonderful speakers that will be in attendance.
  • Bishops Betrayed on Assisted Suicide
  • 6/22/2011
  • (Patrick J. Reilly) - Even as the nation's bishops react with alarm to a recent Montana Supreme Court ruling allowing physician-assisted suicide, their efforts are being undermined by ethics and law professors at several Jesuit universities. Last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a statement describing assisted suicide as "a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent":
  • Cardinal Pell Warns Against Acceptance of Euthanasia
  • 6/21/2011
  • (Catholic Culture) - Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia, argues that the Catholic Church must lead the public fight against acceptance of euthanasia, recognizing that many young people "are moral relativists at least in matters of sexuality and questions of life and death."
  • Wounded Warrior Project Helps Injured Soldiers Gain Independence
  • 6/20/2011
  • (mlive.com) - Mike Elder considers it his good fortune the Wounded Warrior Project began about the same time he returned home from Afghanistan. Elder, a sergeant with the Army National Guard, was happy with the medical care he received at Fort Campbell, Ky., after he was injured in an accident on a mountain road.
  • Determined to Recover, Daughter Gets Diploma
  • 6/19/2011
  • (Seacoastonline.com) - It was an emotional but happy night for Bill Gott as he watched as his daughter, Myla, make her way to the graduation podium Friday night to receive her diploma from Winnacunnet High School.
  • Peter Singer Believes His Views Are "Objective Truth"
  • 6/18/2011
  • (Secondhand Smoke) - Peter Singer reviews a new book called On What Matters in his syndicated column. Philosopher Derek Parfit apparently argues that there is such a thing as objective truth, and indeed, that we need to find "what really matters" if life is to have any ultimate meaning.