Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.

Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.

Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?

Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.