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Members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) community have rallied in recent months around a classmate who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare nervous-system disorder.
Avichai Kremer, MBA ’06, began treatments last fall for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since then, students and faculty at HBS have set out both to increase awareness of the disease and to raise money to fund research for it...
Nathan M. Boaz, president of Kremer’s section, decided early on to join Kremer in his efforts to fight ALS.
So far, Kremer and his supporters have raised $22,000, Boaz added, and they hope to raise $100,000 for ALS research by the end of their campaign.
The risk in such situations is that people who want to die will simply contrive their own ways--ways that aren't always easy. Last year, Joe Ramos, a retired Northern California computer executive, reluctantly supported his wife's wish to end her life when she became debilitated with ALS...