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...lack of organs. Yet a new poll suggests that plenty of people want to donate. They simply don't know how. The survey, by the Coalition on Donation, found that while 9 out of 10 Americans support organ and tissue donation, only 3 out of 10 know the proper steps to take...
...first proper story in "Or Else" #1, "NST '04," introduces many of Huizenga's recurring themes and techniques. It begins with a naturalistic scene of Glenn and his girlfriend idling in a cemetery at night. "The air was thick with the smell of baking bread," reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals...
...getting the concurrence of a second doctor that he had less than six months to live. "This isn't suicide," Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life. When five doctors tell you nothing can be done, you are merely insuring that your life ends at the proper time. I don't want my daughters to see me wither away to 80 lbs. and have some night nurse shave my beard to get some tubing into my mouth...
...Terri Schiavo's private tragedy has become a political issue in the U.S. estranges many people in Europe. But Europeans, too, have struggled to find the proper balance between the right to life and the right to die. In 1974, Dutch mother-to-be Ineke Stinissen fell into a deep coma after problems with the anesthetic administered during her caesarean section. A year later, her husband Gerard asked that her feeding tube be removed, seeing no hope of her regaining consciousness. Stinissen's doctors refused on ethical grounds. Amid impassioned public debate, Gerard fought for his wife's right...
...only is this action constitutionally dubious in its effective usurpation of states’ rights, but it sets a dangerous precedent of prolonging specific legal disputes outside of their proper arena. Politicization of court cases is inevitable to some degree, but the intrusion of legislative politics is nothing short of debilitating to the very independence of the judicial branch of government. In Sunday’s House of Representatives floor debate Rep. James D. Moran Jr., D-Va., wisely observed with regard to the Schiavo struggle, “I don’t know who’s right...