I’ve witnessed people in comas for years before they die. I’ve seen people loaded with painkillers, in order for them to live a few days. I’ve watched people cry out in pain, asking for mercy, for God or someone to stop the pain; that is the case in most late stages of cancer and heart attacks, just to mention the two biggies.
Life or death decisions should be left to the person. And if they are in no condition to make decisions, then the nearest family member, not politicians, doctors or preachers. They aren’t the ones in pain. And nobody can tell me that God is a merciful God, yet, he has no compassion for people living in pain and suffering. It’s easy for preachers to say people should depend on God’s grace and mercy when it’s not them or their wife, husband, child, mother, father or other loved one suffering.
These preachers actually called the people supporting this law evil. Hopefully none of them, or their family members, will come down with a terminal illness, because if they do, I wonder how many will be singing, “How I want to go to heaven to live with the King (Jesus Christ),” just one of many songs talking about dying and going to meet the Lord.
I don’t know about dying with dignity, but I do know that we need to stop the pain and suffering. And if death is the only way, then death it is. Let that individual face God and the two of them can determine who was right.
Public safety diversity
The city of Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety is becoming a national model for diversity. I think?
When I first came to this city in the early ‘70s, police Sargent Harvey Adams Jr., the then-local NAACP president, was leading a massive campaign to get more Blacks and women hired as police and fire officers, and even though they started it, all Blacks were not being hired as Emergency Service officers.
The recent Public Safety promotions of Amera Gilchrist to assistant EMS chief, Lavonnie Bickerstaff to assistant chief of police and Eric Holmes to executive officer marks a positive point in Mayor Bill Peduto’s commitment to diversity in city government, especially to public safety.
Congratulations goes out to Gilchrist, Bickerstaff and Holmes, as well as the other Blacks promoted during 2016.
Congratulations also goes out to the Allderdice boys basketball team for winning their fourth consecutive City League championship with a 71-70 triple overtime victory over Obama Academy. And not to be outdone, the Obama Academy girls team won their fourth consecutive City League championship, 64-53, over Allderdice.
Obama also won the middle school girls division, and U-Prep won the boys.
(Ulish Carter is the managing editor of the New Pittsburgh Courier.)
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