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...stumble as fast as your flailing limbs can carry you to Meet the Parents. It is the work of director Jay Roach, whose Austin Powers movies were intermittently funny but not what anyone would call intricately constructed machines. What those movies needed was a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers like Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, who wrote this screenplay. And a bunch of actors, led by Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs...
Thank you for your article "A Kinder, Gentler Death" [SOCIETY, Sept. 18]. I watched my father die of colon cancer while under hospice care. I asked the people on the hospice staff how they could work in such a depressing environment. The answer stunned me. They didn't focus on the sadness; they focused on the care they provided to the patient and the family, making sure it was a "good death." They felt they had done their job if the patient was able to pass away comfortably, surrounded by family members. I think I will count...
Just because the medical profession has made advances that save lives does not mean doctors have to play God. They should quit worrying about lawsuits, stop providing unnecessary treatment and respect the wishes of the patient who wants to die with dignity. Compassion and common sense should prevail. BESS ARNOLD Cheyenne...
...celebrate when a baby enters the world, but at the end of life's long and strange journey, the terminally ill are sent to a nursing home or hospital to die, often alone. That is shameful. The end of life, like the beginning, should be spent in the company of loved ones, in a home rather than an institution. JOSH KIENITZ Lima, Ohio...
CHEMO COMBO More than 55,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer this year. But doctors have designed a new chemotherapy regimen that can slow metastatic colorectal cancer and buy patients a few more months of life. By adding the drug irinotecan to the standard treatment of fluorouracil and leucovorin, researchers increased patients' survival time from 13 to 15 months, afforded them seven months (up from four) of progression-free disease and nearly doubled the percentage of patients whose tumors shrank...