WHY I'M AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE

 “You see, the difficulty with making a decision [for assisted suicide] is that we’re not really sure what tomorrow is going to bring. We make a decision based on the grief of today.” —A quote from me in an interview a number of years ago. See at this link. WHY I'M AGAINST ASSISTED SUICIDE

I had been in an electric wheelchair for many years resulting from three decades with aggressive multiple sclerosis. My MS had moved from exacerbating-remitting to secondary progressive. By all medical wisdom, my prospect was continued degeneration and eventual institutionalization in a nursing home. As I said in the interview, I had no idea what

tomorrow would bring. Three years ago, the Lord raised me out of that wheelchair to stand on legs as thin as popsicle sticks—atrophied from years of being virtually useless. I walked again (albeit with a cane). I still am walking!

Mark

(I am available for interviews, Zoom meetings. Contact email: HumanLifeMatters@shaw.ca)

SHE DID IT FOR THE GLORY OF LOVE

My life has been a love story. LaRee has loved me since we were teens: 52 years ago.  She's been my wife for 48 years, thirty-seven marred by disease and the terror of creeping paralysis. She still loved me when the cold metal bars of my wheelchair tried to scare her love away. There were times when all we had left was each other, broken wings, and a prayer. In my foolishness. I imagined I was a superhero who could defend her honour for the glory of our love. She let me pretend … but the truth was that she was the one who defended a fool's honour even though my body became little more than a living carcass. LaRee did it for the beauty and glory of love. — Mark

Peter Cetera, The Glory of Love