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Roman's Best of the Week blog entry about the idea of epiphany in Cathedral.

Roman, I really like how your described the experience of an epiphany, how language actually limits the description of an epiphany and takes away from the experience. It reminded be of the idea that in order to completely understand something you have to experience it. Even when I write about experiences that I have and try to convey them to other people through words, I find that they never sound quite right. I feel that I am doing a disservice to the moment. The only way that anyone could know what I was talking about would be being with me for the brief moment on a peak, or finding the flower that you've been searching for for years (for me it was the calypso lady slipper). That is why we have other modes of expression like music or art. Like you said, some things just can't be explained with words.

Merrick's Best of the Week blog entry about assisted suicide.

Merrick, I, like Taylor, do honor your opinion, but I have to disagree.

Say that your grandma had Alzheimer's. Would you rather slowly and painfully watch her deteriorate mentally or would you rather let her make the choice while she was still your grandma to end her life? I don't understand how this could be a selfish decision. She would be trying to save you and your family from the pain that they would experience seeing her slowly become someone else, someone who forgets who you are. This could go on for who knows how long. I really liked how Taylor put that they are only existing and not really living.

I do feel that their should be a thorough process that each individual must go through in order to end their life. Their must be a certain amount of counseling as well as doctors, both medical and psychological agreeing that the patient can pursue this option, and they should be able to do this without the fear of putting their career on the line. Their should also be family consent and they should be involved in the entire counseling process because like you said, this decision affects friends and family as well. All in all, suicide should be an option available, but not for the victim of a recent break up.