I think that "end of life" stations should be in every city, and ANYONE, regardless of condition, should be able to walk into one and end their life with no stigma of "quitting" - if they so choose. No trying to convince you to stay alive, just a check to ensure that they have their affairs in order and next of kin notified if that is a request of the soon to be deceased.

No one ever asked to be born, and it should NOT be a requirement of any society to force you to stay alive if you don't wish to. All organs would be harvested for reuse, and the remains composted or cremated.

End result: Everyone is happy.

When I told people that run the local funeral home that I was going to be cremated one of them came back at me saying he believed in death with dignity. My response was that death has no dignity.

Death with dignity is fine if you don't have a condition that is so painful it doesn't respond to the maximum level of painkillers available, and you have to be moved to a part of the hospital where the screams and smells don't upset the other patients. In the UK the organisation Dignity in Dying is trying to change the law so that people can end their lives with medical assistance before they reach that point - a right which I believe you have in some US states.

" A program to educate people about the importance and positive aspects of aging and dying."

if they can put a positive spin on the above then pat robertson has got nothing on them.

i suppose wisdom comes with age but what's really depressing is the old adage : too soon old, too late wise. which probably applies to most people.

Let’em use whatever language they want to use. It’s a free country.

How can anyone who has reached the part of life where you start looking at your age, your "stuff," your beliefs, your mortality, and your own death, or has dealt with a close terminally ill relative or friend, not be open-minded and interested enough to hear what others, who might have even one small bit of knowledge to pass on. In my mind, I am secure enough with the knowledge that I am an atheist/apatheist that people using religious terminology to describe end of life and, yes, talking about the end from a purely religious system, to listen to hear if they might actually have real information that might be valuable to me. If not, then that's an hour from my life that I'll not get back, but what would I have been doing if not listening. From my point of view, most people use religious terms to describe events because they have a limited vocabulary - they don't know the other words. I have my moments, but I hope I will always be open to hearing another's views about something that interests me. I would have attended.

More religious or pseudo-religious mumbo-jumbo. There is no journey of the soul.