Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Police ruled Heather Mayer’s death a suicide (Andy Mannix / Star Tribune)
Tracy Dettling entered the prosecutor’s office braced for bad news.
It had been seven months since police found her daughter Heather dead, and in that time Dettling had lost faith that police were taking the case seriously. When Dakota County Attorney Kathy Keena called a meeting, Dettling texted the lead investigator to say she felt in her gut there would be no charges. “I hope I am wrong.”
Dettling’s suspicions proved correct.
Have Assisted Dying Laws Gone Too Far? (Meagan Gillmore / The Walrus)
In February 2021, three UN experts on the rights of seniors and people with disabilities as well as on human rights and extreme poverty wrote a letter to the federal government, urging it not to legalize Track Two. “There is a grave concern,” the letter stated, “that, if assisted dying is made available for all persons with a health condition or impairment, regardless of whether they are close to death, a social assumption might follow (or be subtly reinforced) that it is better to be dead than to live with a disability.”
Ocean plastic pollution problem, explained (theoceancleanup)
@theoceancleanup Ocean plastic pollution problem, explained. #theoceancleanup #plasticpollution ♬ original sound – The Ocean Cleanup
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