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MANDY ALLWOOD She tried to bear a full set of octuplets, paid for by an English tabloid...
...endured over 10 years is clear as day. In addition to the stories people who knew Jackie tell, in addition to chilling accounts by Kay and her two children, there are pages of police complaints. And there are the scars: Kay and several members of her family still bear jagged reminders of Jackie's nasty handiwork. A few weeks before Kay shot her ex-husband, he stabbed Kay, her sister Debbie and Debbie's boyfriend William Robinette with a butcher knife--a crime for which he was out on bond when he died...
...restricted because of their broader societal implications. And the societal implications of physician-assisted suicide are grave, as is the potential for misuse. The right to die could become a duty to die, with patients feeling pressurized into requesting euthanasia. Patients might choose to die not because they cannot bear physical pain anymore, or because they don't want to live, but because they decide that the financial and emotional burden that they are placing on their families and loved ones is not worth...
Furthermore, this is only the best case scenario in which no pressure is brought to bear on the patient by those around him. The physician in a resource-constrained public hospital, the patient's health insurance company, or relatives who themselves feel emotionally and financially drained might all pressure the patient. Once death becomes an option, patients will find themselves having to justify their right to live, and people who would otherwise never contemplate euthanasia would find themselves forced into considering this "option...
Although Beckmann had to bear the burden of politics in full measure, there are no specific political references in his triptychs because as a painter he wasn't interested in the subject. He wanted his art to go beyond that, relying on what he called "the uninterrupted labor of the eyes" to realize experience in sensation, translating it into form, color and space...