Carlos Gomez
Carlos Gomez
Carlos Argelis Gómez Pena, nicknamed Go-Go,is a Dominican professional baseball center fielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He has also played in MLB for the New York Mets, the Minnesota Twins, and the Milwaukee Brewers. Gómez is a two-time MLB All-Star and a Gold Glove Award winner...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth4 December 1985
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Make me an offer I can't refuse, and you can have the taco stand,
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Americans continue treating death as if it's an option instead of a reality.
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My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done and not done. No hospitals, no invasive surgeries. He had a living will, which is like a narrative of your life that you get to finish. It was his legacy -- what he wanted to leave his family: emotionally, financially, spiritually.
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The language of the court decisions on the topic is quite frightening, ... One appellate court said that the state has a lessened interest in human life when that life is terminal. Think about that for just a second! If that doesn't turn things on its head!
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To me, the moment that the state has a compelling interest in is precisely when human life is most vulnerable -- the very young, the very old, and all of us in between who is some ways are handicapped, disabled, are vulnerable to exploitation, ... Those of us who are able-bodied, who are able to articulate our own interests, who have access to all the resource in society, we really don't need the state's help. We'll do just fine. It's the others that concern me. And for the state to turn that argument on its head and say that as you approach your death, the state has less and less of an interest in your life, is to me completely bizarre.
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