To the editor:

Several years ago, I held my comatose mother’s hand for six days before she starved to death in a hospital setting. She died without dignity and I could do nothing. People are so focused on the ars vivendi, the art of living, that the ars moriendi, the art of dying, is denied its sacred time at the end of life.

As to gay marriage, I believe it is the vow between two people, not always the sex, that is sacred. If those in the judgmental populace are so adamant against gay marriage, why the scandalous silence about the one in two marriages which result in divorce, the breaking of a sacred vow previously made before the religious community? Or, my heavens, what about the twice divorced, or the divorced leader of worship? Allowance of divorce should seem to them a greater threat to marriage than gay marriage. The path of judgment is the wrong one.

And, to mundane matters, the roundabouts are ridiculous, dangerous and ugly. In California (whence we just left to live in Lawrence) the police would set up speed traps with major fines, after all area houses were so informed, with yield and fine signs appropriately set up.

Ken Bubb,

Lawrence