Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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To the editor:

Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson states that physician-assisted suicide is an unnecessary defense against fear and suffering. As the primary caregivers for our son who recently died at the age of 35 from a brain tumor, we disagree. ("Why many hospice doctors like me won't participate in legal physician assisted suicide," Opinion, May 12)

Our son did undergo the “natural process of dying,” but it was far from a “pleasant way to go.” Even with the help of hospice, steroids for the constant headaches and analgesics for the horrific pain that came with partial paralysis, our son's process of dying was not peaceful. He suffered extreme anxiety and often times would ask, “Why can't I just die?”

If we hadn't gone through this experience, it would have been easy to agree with Chiasson.

California's impending right-to-die law is important to help those who don't want to go through the agony that we and our son experienced. Those last horrific weeks will be with us forever.

Jack and Jan Reisdorf, Mission Viejo

Live in Europe (1976). Amazing energy.

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This punk may have the shortest political career ever, and deservedly so.

What goes around comes around.

To the Editor:

Re “A Confession of Liberal Intolerance,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, May 8):

Some of us in scientific fields of academia believe that it may be rational to disqualify a job candidate for being evangelical if this includes a literal interpretation of the Bible (such as that the Earth is only a few thousand years old). Also, economists might want to hear, from a possibly Republican job candidate, a realistic scenario for how future growth would compensate for tax cuts. Not all “bias” is irrational, when it is connected not with group membership per se, but with rejection of observation, logic and their products, such as Darwin’s theory of evolution. The university is a forum for developing and airing beliefs and knowledge that have a solid basis. For their forums, evangelicals have places of worship, and Republicans have Fox News.

JOHN L. MICHELA

Waterloo, Ontario

The writer is an associate professor of psychology at University of Waterloo.

Note from KBJ: Psychology is a science? It's progressive ideology masquerading as science, and this True Believer doesn't realize it. I feel sorry for his students.

@BBTN he's had this coming for a long time. pic.twitter.com/LyuZ31Rcsi

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This afternoon, at a Shell station in Arlington, Texas, I paid $1.999 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. With my Kroger card, it came to $1.899. What're y'all payin' in your neck o' the woods?