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...from the political battle that has surrounded Terri Schiavo, a radical experiment in end-of--life policy has unfolded much more quietly over the past seven years. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, twice approved in statewide voter referendums, is the only statute in the U.S. allowing doctors to write lethal prescriptions for terminally ill patients who want to control the time and place of their death. The law would not affect a case like Schiavo's: patients qualify only if they are fully conscious and able to administer their own overdose. But Oregon represents a new frontier...
Patients such as Steve Mason don't view it that way. A retired Army captain who served in Vietnam and has published three books of poetry, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer last April. Eventually, his longtime internist agreed to write his Nembutal prescription, but only after Mason cleared all the law's hurdles: submitting oral and written requests in the presence of two witnesses, waiting a mandatory 15 days and 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...
...have no idea. I barely read it. She felt like doing it, and as you know, you don't tell your mother what to do. But I've told her that one day I'm going to write a book called My Mother, Marina and get my revenge...
REBECCA MILLER: Ten years ago I had written a film called Angela, and there was a young girl, 6 years old, and her father who are sort of left in the end. I wanted to write something else, and I thought to myself, Ten years later, where would they be? What kind of relationship would they have? From there they kind of diverged and became these other characters. This screenplay was kind of special in the sense that it really kept evolving and changing over a decade. Even when we were shooting I was making significant changes to the script...
...Each year, you’ve got a chance to write a new script,” Donato. “Obviously we’d like to write a little bit more of a happy ending for ourselves. But you know what? These guys have played in four consecutive NCAA tournaments. They’ve played in four consecutive ECAC championships…So I don’t think these guys have to hang their [heads...