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Fewer Americans Optimistic About Their Future

Gallup Detects a Significant
Shift in American Optimism

Gallup Detects a Significant Shift in American Optimism

Percentage of people optimistic about their future slips to lowest since poll began measuring

(Newser) - American optimism about the future has slid to its lowest point since Gallup began tracking it nearly 20 years ago. Just under 60% of US adults now expect to be living "high-quality" lives five years from now, according to a new Gallup poll . That's down 3.5 points...

After Years of Mental Struggles, Woman Earns the Right to Die

Woman's Controversial
Death Wish Is Finally Granted

May 16, 2024 11:03 AM CDT

Woman's Controversial Death Wish Is Finally Granted

Netherlands' Zoraya ter Beek, 29, gets the OK for an assisted death due to mental health struggles

(Newser) - For nearly four years, Zoraya ter Beek has been patiently biding her time, going through the laborious process in the Netherlands to get the green light for an assisted suicide due to what she describes as overwhelming mental suffering. Last week, ter Beek finally saw her request granted, clearing the...

'Right to Die'
Opponent
Has Died

UPDATED

Mar 23, 2015 7:03 AM CDT

'Right to Die' Opponent Has Died

Kara Tippetts, 38, urged Brittany Maynard not to take her own life

(Newser) - A Christian writer who fueled the debate over assisted suicide and refused to cut her own life short in the face of terminal cancer died yesterday, according to a post on her blog . Kara Tippetts, 38, a pastor's wife and mother of four in Colorado Springs, Colo., was admitted...

Whales Suffer Like Humans

Jun 21, 2010 4:27 AM CDT

Whales Suffer Like Humans

Biologists cite studies as case against whaling

(Newser) - As the International Whaling Commission meets this week to debate the future of whaling, marine biologists say that whales are similar to humans in their capacity to feel and suffer. Recent studies show that whales—like great apes and dolphins—possess a self-awareness, which one neurobiologist says allows them to...

Pat Robertson Fallout Shows Hypocrisy of Christianity

Richard Dawkins

Jan 26, 2010 12:19 PM CST

Pat Robertson Fallout Shows Hypocrisy of Christianity

If you blast him, you blast the whole faith

(Newser) - Christians who try to distance themselves from Pat Robertson’s assertion that the recent earthquake is payback for a pact with the devil are practicing the height of hypocrisy, Richard Dawkins writes. “Dear modern, enlightened, theologically sophisticated Christian, your entire religion is founded on an obsession with 'sin', with...