Today we have a guest post from Keith Jenkins, a writer living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Queen’s Day
The birthday of the Netherlands’ Queen Beatrix is celebrated each year on the 30th of April. It’s not Queen Beatrix’s actual date of birth but her grandmother’s. Queen’s Day is characterized by a multitude of outdoor activities. Recognizing this, two queens in succession decreed that Queen’s Day should continue to be celebrated on 30th April due to the warmer weather in April.
This is the only day of the year that anyone is allowed to open a street stall and sell anything they want …read more

Passed in 1997, Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act makes physician-assisted suicide legal for terminally ill patients. Currently, Oregon is the only state in America that allows physician-assisted suicides. (I guess Michigan felt it’d be a bit inappropriate.)
Even though there are several “safeguards” within the Death with Dignity Act that aim to cover all mental health bases before a doctor can help a terminally ill patient commit suicide (such as psychological evaluations), folks from the Oregon Health and Science University are raising questions about patients with depression and anxiety (those who are likely to have impaired judgment). And, the answers to …read more