A friend reminded me that Welch's comments on polluted Chicago - you can't fix it - also apply to the ingrained attitude toward dying. Another reader wrote that corporations make too much money keeping old folks alive for as long as possible to let us choose an early exit.
Both are probably right. Welch took a gun into the mountains and entered the food chain. There may be no more honorable alternative.
I don't own a gun and haven't shot one since the army. Whole situation pisses me off. Maybe in time I'll get lucky and follow the family tradition.
