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After reading "Hospice Care" in this week's Pacific Sun ("Dying at Home," March 3) I realized that for many years the Sun has written numerous articles on death and dying topics and you continue to overlook one of the gems we have living here in Marin, Dale Borglum Ph.D. Dale is truly one of the pioneers in the death and dying field in this country. He, with Stephen Levine and Ram Dass founded the first spiritually based hospices in this country. Dale is the one, and only one, of the group that actually ran and directed this hospice in Santa Fe. He lived with his patients and not only provided spiritual support hut also t personally helped care for the clients' physical needs. Back then Ram Dass and Stephen chose to start lecturing and writing books (to become famous) while Dale chose t...
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Introduction I. Methodology II. Context of Debate A. A Review of Basic Concepts and Fundamental Arguments B. Why is Euthanasia Controversial? III. The "Right to Die" Debate A. The Facts B. The Meaning of Life C. The Problem with Professional Judgment D. Absolute Rule v. Variegated Circumstances E. Are There Absolute Moral Values and Universal Human Rights? F. The Problem with the AMA Code of Ethics G. Active vs. Passive Euthanasia H. Compassion vs. Professionalism I. The Problem with Rationing Medical Resources J. What Is a Rational Choice-Facts, Values, Opinions and Judgments? K. The Problems with Paternalism L. Rationality By Process or By Result? M. The Problem of Making a Decision in a Vacuum N. Should One Be Expected to Help Another Kill Himself? O. How to Evaluate Intangibles Such...
... and wishing to die a peaceful and dignified death, and a humanistic doctor personally and profession... have passed away, but the memory of her dying days lives with me. Though covered up in nicely ad... For a collection of leading and defining articles on the subject of "right to die," see Melvin I. Ur...
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... and the circumstances and timing of their death (Humphry & Clement, 2000). . The right-to-die move... laws do not allow for physician aid in dying. Legislatures in 38 states passed laws to prohibit... was designed to locate professional articles on the themes of self-determination and culture as...
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...(a) Exemption. Articles claimed to be personal and household effects, not ... owner of the effects at the time of death. [T.D. 73-27, 38 FR 2449, Jan. 26, 1973, as amende...
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A friend once told me that she doesn't like to read my articles, since so many of them are about people in crisis. Over the years, I've written extensively about child abuse, death and the sometimes drawn-out process of dying, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, severe illness, fractured families and other admittedly sorrowful subjects. You are," she teased me gently, "the original bad news bear.
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NOT HYPOTHETICAL Rev. John F. Tuohey ("A Fatal Conflict," January 28) notes that when the U.S. bishop's Committee on Doctrine issued a statement on the dilation and curettage performed at an Arizona Catholic hospital in November 2009, it cited a hypothetical maternal-fetal conflict to illustrate the difference between direct and indirect abortion. ACKNOWLEDGING EVIL Regarding the January 28 editorial, Killings in Tucson: As the finger-pointing started after the tragic events in Tucson, I was reminded of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's statement: If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
... the right to life of a patient whose death could otherwise be prevented" (emphasis original)....It so happens that he is also dying; however, it is expected that the patient sufferin... go into detail commenting on so many articles in recent issues that I thoroughly enjoyed, but I ...
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... condemned to an unbearable life and to a death unworthy of human beings. . * Another important fa... It is striking that some doctors publish articles in which they boast of having already dispatched m..., and it could even be assumed that "the dying process had already begun." (269) And the patient ...
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... the major positions on the determination of death, and it proffers a creative new solution of its ow.... The Abstracts section includes recent articles on the neuroscience of the brain, the history of ddeath and dying controversies, moral issues in lung transplant sur...
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... meditation on the words of the Jesus dying on the cross--"Father, forgive them, for they know... (15) Lucas complained in 1981: "A lot of articles either are wrong about things or they make up thin...
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... describing how they dealt with the death of a spouse, a child, a parent, a sibling or a clo... and social issues relating to death and dying, having written numerous articles on the subject f...
