Word: help
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Ehtablay, 13, is there only for a refresher course and R. and R. He proudly, ostentatiously skips the new recruits' morning routine of calisthenics and rifle training so he can help the other soldiers with cooking and camp chores. A veteran of three battles, Ehtablay ran away from home to join the army when he was twelve. He had never been to school, and says he always wanted to be a soldier, just like his father and two older brothers. He has only a vague notion of how long the war has been going on, guessing "49 years." He acts...
...much attracted to him for that. Problems don't fit into near ideological test bags. Some problems require 'right' solutions. Some require 'left' solutions. Some require common-sense solutions." Says Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, an ardent backer: "In San Francisco, she was more moderate than her city. But that will help in the Governor's race, because that's where the state...
...dilemma. In recent years the agonizing debate over the issue has revolved around new technologies that can keep dying or comatose patients alive long after the quality of their lives is nil. Though most physicians will respect a patient's right to refuse treatment, they will not actively help bring about death. "This case seems to take the responsibility away from human beings and to put it in the hands of a machine," says George Annas, professor of health law at the Boston University School of Medicine. "If this doctor had given Mrs. Adkins a cyanide pill, he would probably...
...woman who loved hang gliding and mountain climbing and playing her flute, she was not yet very sick; the week before her suicide she beat her 32-year-old son in a tennis match. It was more her dread than her disease that drove her to seek Kevorkian's help. Even before her illness she had joined the Hemlock Society, a group that supports terminally ill patients' right to die by means including assisted suicide. But in her home state of Oregon, such means are illegal, and doctors at her hospital say they never advise suicide as an option...
...been a pugnacious maverick, recommending, among other things, a scheme whereby doctors would render death-row patients unconscious so their living bodies could be used for medical experiments. In recent years Kevorkian has fought hard for a patient's right to commit suicide and a doctor's right to help. Last fall he invented the easily replicable suicide machine using $45 worth of hardware and tried to advertise it in a local medical journal. When the editors refused, he peddled the story to the local newspapers and soon found himself on the Donahue show...