Props: Declaration of Independence, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, various newsletters, National Enquirer article, Condition Critical, flowers, Prescription: Medicide, We Don't Die.

[Teaching hospital in background.] Health care has become a major problem for too many of us. The government and media have brain-polluted us into two-legged sheep bleating that we have a "right" to health care. [D of I] We have the Right to Life, Liberty, and . . . Happiness. Not just the pursuit of Happiness Happiness itself. Too many of us have forgotten that and that Rights must be demanded or they are surrendered. We have the Right to associate freely with whomever we choose, whether or not they are licensed and members of a monopoly. We have the Right to the medication of our choice, even if it isn't approved by the Food and Drug Gestapo. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Survey says "One of three biggest lies." Whose life is it, anyway? It is our nature to be free and independent, to not be controlled.

We have the Right to reproduce, and the Right NOT TO - we have the right to be childfree, childPROOF (temporarily or permanently) - and the Right to information about our options. We have these Rights as soon as we have the power to reproduce. Why does our Puritanical society ignore reality and make that difficult for us?

If you think we have a "right" to health care, how much? "As much as we need"? Who decides what we need? The government told us they'd take care of us but they didn't tell us it'd be after they take care of themselves. Then they'll let us fight among ourselves over what's left. Hasn't it always been that way? For as long as I can remember. You need to know only five words about Government Health Care: THE GOVERNMENT IS OUR ENEMY!

Electronic devices, some astonishingly simple and low-cost, some extremely complex, can safely treat us but the Food and Drug Gestapo prohibits their use. The Most Useful Plant on the Planet - [Hemp flower] the safest medication ever which has never killed anyone is the best medication for several ailments, but forbidden. The Divine Plant of the Incas [coca bush] which has never killed anyone either, is the best preventative and cure for several ailments, but also forbidden. Contrast them to the most radioactive, most carcinogenic, most addictive plant on the planet, which is subsidized by the government, widely advertised, and available to children in vending machines.

Iatrogenic means physician-caused. Don't expect people who cause a problem to solve it. Certainly not if they get paid when they're not successful. In some societies, doctors get paid only if they cure the patient. One hospital boasted in a full-page ad that 90% of their patients returned. Huh? Why did they return? I think of hospitals as repair facilities. Did they return because the repair was improperly done? I have not seen that ad again.

The solutions to most of our problems are out there. [ various newsletters] They may not be easy to find, but The Truth Is Out There. The answer may be to slow down or stop what you're doing. Often, the answer is in nature. Often the solutions don't cost much. That's part of the problem. If nobody can make money on them, they can't afford to get the message thru all the audio and visual pollution flooding us. Eat what you want, when you want it, and no more than you want, get "enough" exercise and avoid toxins and you'll minimize your need for health care.

Emergencies happen. [Condition Critical] It seems like nurses do most of the work but doctors get most of the credit. Why? Everyone who helps anyone should be appropriately rewarded.

There are many justified complaints too much violence on television! There isn't enough violence on television; the violence isn't authentic, it's sanitized. If it were accurately gory and bloody-awful, fewer people would watch it and fewer people would commit violent acts. Thank you, Peter McWilliams, for reminding me of that in Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do.

Sometimes you can't afford treatment by a "professional". Who is a "professional?" Anyone who makes money doing something. If you can't afford something and don't qualify for welfare, you may have to go without, or do it yourself.

[Enquirer tonsillectomy article] "College student cuts out own tonsils. . .because she can't afford medical insurance" And she wasn't even a nursing or pre-med student! My kind of woman! That's the spirit that made America great. A specialist [tone of contempt] said she was very lucky. "She could have bled to death if she hit a large blood vessel and there are large ones behind the tonsils."

Whenever you attempt something, do it with as much knowledge as possible. I would have studied Grey's Anatomy first.

If you need, really need, surgery and can't do it yourself, you can get it at cut-rate prices [smiles] at medical schools and teaching hospitals. Comparison shop. You can get dental work done at dental schools at lower cost (but hardly low cost), IF you're available days AND IF they're willing to work on you. They're not willing to work on me any more.

Eventually your body will wear out, break down. Ideally it will happen suddenly, soon after a "Time's up!" warning. It's being called squaring the curve. Nobody will be able to repair you any more. Then what? Why let them hook you up to a machine with hoses, just so they can drain away all of your a$$et$? So you can be a burden on others? We have the Right to our own Life, our own Liberty, and the Pursuit of our own Happiness, even if you don't realize it. Then, logically, we also have the Right to move on from that life if, when, we choose to. WELL, DON'T WE??

Before going anywhere it's usually best to know about it. Read We Don't Die. The subject, George Anderson, has communicated with thousands on the Other Side. Statistically, there is no way he could fake it. He said "I'd rather be there than here."

Can about thirty thousand Americans be wrong every year? Of course they can! That's not a good argument. About thirty thousand Americans every year decide they would rather be ANYWHERE else than here, even if it might be NOWHERE . . . NOTHINGNESS. They don't know for sure what happens after "death", but they decide it couldn't be any worse than what they are experiencing. Because of a taboo, because not enough people have given it enough serious, rational thought, those people do it any way they can. That is not logical. Logically, they should use a method which causes the fewest people the fewest problems and least suffering.

But many of them for whatever reason, or lack of reason, choose methods which maximize problems and suffering. IF you do it, PLEASE! don't use a gun. It may make an awful mess for others to clean up, even in a tiled bathroom. And it will give ammunition to the coprocephaloids who would take away Our Right to Defend Ourself and Others and Property by any means necessary.

Consider the classic Roman method: lie in a hot bath and cut your wrists. Remember The Godfather Part One? That was one of the methods that Derek Humphry did not even mention in Chapter Five of Final Exit. Humphry earned my contempt for that chapter which omitted some efficient methods and lied about others. They don't even know what the "hemlock" was that their society is named for. The report of Socrates' death described the action of a sedative. Neither the tree nor water hemlock produces effects like this.

IF you do it, consider the method I think God intended, and Daimler, Benz, Henry Ford, Walter P. Chrysler and others made very practical. Go on your final drive with carbon monoxide. [tailpipe] It is natural, colorless, odorless, tasteless . . . and gentle. If you can find a better method, USE IT! Sorry, you won't be able to donate your body parts, because carbon monoxide ruins them, but our sick society isn't nearly as concerned about that as it should be. Our sick society is a long way from the terminatoriums in Soylent Green. Someone has been trying ever since he was a medical resident over thirty years ago to make organ donation possible by condemned prisoners. [Prescription: Medicide] POSSIBLE, not mandatory. But society knows him only for his willingness to help people take their final journey.

Go with a high energy level with your favorite sensory inputs. Maybe you'd enjoy admiring the blatantly displayed sexual organs of plants . . . flowers! Enjoy their softness, the intensity of their colors and the uniqueness of their patterns and fragrances. Maybe you'd enjoy watching people enjoy themselves and each other. For audio I recommend Vivaldi's Four Seasons. It produces a brain wave pattern closest to that of a pain-killer. Edgar Cayce recommended music by Johann Strauss. When you "break on through to the other side" (perhaps listening to The Doors) do it with high energy and Have a Good Trip! Someday I may meet you on the Other Side.