Government controls how, when we live

One recent day in a Cedar Falls deli, I met a man even older than me. He told me that his deceased wife, when she was in severe pain in a nursing home, begged him to obtain something to help her die. He said, “I told her that I'd go to prison, if I did.” So, he added, “She starved herself to death.”

Every one of our state governments, except three, relentlessly prosecutes all practitioners of euthanasia because their actions impugn its tacitly implied assertion that it owns the lives of all its citizens.

Every young citizen who registers for the draft is forced to consent thereby to the government's claim that it owns his life.

The phenomenon of “grade inflation” in our colleges and universities started in the '60s because at that time students needed good grades to obtain military deferments. That influenced professors to give higher grades to help their students stay out of the slave army that was being sent to Vietnam.

Gerald Baker

Cedar Falls