“I
was 29 years old. I'd been married for just over a year. My husband and I were
trying for a family. In April, I learned that not only had my tumor come back,
but it was more aggressive. Doctors gave me a prognosis of six months to live. Because
my tumor is so large, doctors prescribed full brain radiation. I read about the
side effects: The hair on my scalp would have been singed off. My scalp would
be left covered with first-degree burns. My quality of life, as I knew it,
would be gone. After months of research, my family and I reached a
heartbreaking conclusion: There is no treatment that would save my life, and
the recommended treatments would have destroyed the time I had left.” Read
article & watch video at -- http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/opinion/maynard-assisted-suicide-cancer-dignity/index.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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