A Return to Civility? - Any Time Soon? 

     The America we once knew?..with all of its flaws - compared to now? Trump's World?               

                                                                  "...I've seen fire and I've seen rain. I've seen sunny days that we thought would never end...I've seen lonely times when we  could not find a friend...... But Civility....I always thought that I'd see you again. Won't you look down upon me Jesus..."  James Taylor's song.....                 .....you've got to help me make a stand...

      Civility?... What's that? An alien term today:...Trump, the rise of Republican 'White Nationalism' and elevated right wing GOP, racism, Proud Boys, QAnon, revival of the KKK,.... weak-kneed, cowardly US senators who are too frightened of their rogue president  to state publicly,  the truth that exists in their hearts and heads - the President-elect Joe Biden won an overwhelming election victory - Never in history has a president in modern times ever won by such a HUGE percentage margin...he got  80 million votes....to Trump's 74 million. Trump lost...but like all true dictators and despots, he refuses to acknowledge the outcome of a free and honest election.  

        The 1960s were a very difficult time for this country.  I remember the spire of flames and smoke rising above northeast Washington, DC. We were very divided in the latter part of the 1960s, with very serious race riots. We had some public demonstrations about the war, we had the assassinations of two Kennedys, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X. In the mid-1970s, the widespread criminal conspiracy led by the president that we call for shorthand Watergate had the country in a serious constitutional crisis. ........HOPEFULLY...President Joe Biden and Democratic controlled US Senate (2 Ga. 'wins', Jan.5) and a Democratic House can return to the America we knew, the one that our Allies around the world can county on...Once again.

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COMING UP AGAIN: Dying With Dignity......North Carolina proposed legislation to make NC the 10th state to pass a bill -"End of Life Option'. Only 'Blue States' have passed it so far: Oregon, California, Washington state, Maine, District of Columbia, New Mexico, Vermont, New Jersey, Colorado, Hawaii, While the debate still carries on, more states are poised to make the Death With Dignity, also known as Aid-In-Dying and Physician-Assisted Death, a law.. 28 other states now have 'active legislation pending.'

Prominent Web Sites: "Dying Right (Hillsboro, NC), Compassion & Choices (Oregon), Death With Dignity......Dianne Rehm, (long-time NPR host, (former), works actively with these groups, promoting the passage of the law. Her support rises from the horrible experience her husband had before he died in Maryland some years ago......I, Ken Humphrey participate in the Zoom Meetings of NC's "Dying Right'. I would like to know your thoughts....you can comment here, or to khumphrey8@ec.rr.com.

Ken Humphrey

Eight states and Washington, D.C., have death with dignity statutes:

• California (End of Life Option Act; approved in 2015, in effect from 2016)
• Colorado (End of Life Options Act; 2016)
• District of Columbia (D.C. Death with Dignity Act; 2016/2017)
• Hawai‘i (Our Care, Our Choice Act; 2018/2019)
• Maine (Death with Dignity Act; 2019)
• New Jersey (Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act; 2019)
• Oregon (Death with Dignity Act; 1994/1997)
• Vermont (Patient Choice and Control at the End of Life Act; 2013)
• Washington (Death with Dignity Act; 2008)