Word: killing
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...have consciousness. Her bodymate Jodie is "bright, alert, sparkling...very much a 'with-it' sort of baby," say doctors who testified before British high-court judge Robert Johnson. Mary's life depends on Jodie's heart and lungs, and the strain will probably give Jodie heart failure and kill them both in three to six months. Thus the agonizing dilemma: Should surgeons detach Mary, certainly killing her, to let Jodie live a relatively normal life? Or must they do nothing to harm Mary and stand by while both certainly...
...Mediterranean village who came to Manchester last May, three months before the birth, they wanted to save both twins. But when they learned it was impossible, they asked for treatment to be stopped. They told the court, "We could not possibly agree to any surgery being undertaken that will kill one of our daughters. We have faith in God, and we are quite happy for God's will to decide what happens...
Many physicians are also erroneously worried that they will addict patients or even kill them. Last year Kathleen Foley, another New York City pain specialist, released a study showing that 40% of her fellow neurologists wrongly believed that using a dose of morphine big enough to control breathlessness would actually euthanize the patient. (In truth, there's no ceiling dose of morphine, as long as the patient is given time to adjust...
...these problems? The first step, say the reformers, is to change the way we think about the end. "It's not about death," says Joanne Lynn, director of the RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying. "It's really about living with a disease that's going to kill you, about good living on the way to death. We spend as much time with our fatal illness as we spend as toddlers...
...internal conflicts. In late May 1968, during the California primary campaign, Kennedy attended a party at the Malibu beach house of director John Frankenheimer. The novelist Romain Gary, husband of actress Jean Seberg, fastened onto Kennedy and said, brutally, "You know, don't you, that somebody is going to kill you?" A few days later, when he was 42, somebody did. Bobby Kennedy vanished to become an item of America's counterfactual history. What if? Who knows...