For decades I've stirred the pot by suggesting that those who work 40 (or more) hours a week for 40 (or more) years in unfulfilling, horrible j.o.b.s. that drain life one day at a time - is frankly - socially-accepted suicide.

Most sanctioned hospice programs are socially sanctioned suicide relabeled as right-to-die with dignity. To slowly die from malnutrition and dehydration all the while medicated to thwart pain receptors - yup - that's hospice.

When hope and dreams die, social murder lives.