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...sure this procedure is followed. Although the process sounds cold and clinical, "it's bittersweet and peaceful," says Johanna, a 38-year-old homemaker from Bremen, Germany, who accompanied her mother to Zurich earlier this year. She says her mother, who at 63 suffered from the terminal stages of bone cancer, "never wavered in her resolve to end her suffering this way. And I'm grateful she was given that chance." So far no formal complaints have been filed against Dignitas by relatives or governments of countries where assisted suicide is illegal. But some in Switzerland are voicing concern that...
...you’re that weird kid who wears a box all the time,” Tillery explains. For the past two nights, he was that weird kid. The box, which covered Tillery’s most private areas but did not cover the top of his pelvic bone or his upper thighs, was held up by suspenders and was cleverly labeled “LARGE PACKAGE.” The costume reflects Tillery’s approach to gliding gracefully into the Harvard social scene. “I only make friends when I make...
...immense skate came with a tutorial on how to cut sideways to avoid severing ligaments. Topped with tomato and parsley garnish, the gently flavored fish flaked easily but was definitely upstaged by the meat. The skirt steak ($20), served with potatoes, carrots and a chunk of marrow-filled bone, came with another lesson. While diners used to suck marrow out of the bone, hence the term “sucking the marrow out of life,” these days the bone comes sliced in half and the marrow oozes off with a nudge from the knife point...
...most memorable pick-up line a girl has ever tried on you: Is that muscle or bone...
...removed from the sarcophagus. Studying the corpse literally limb by limb, the first anatomist found nothing suspicious. More than 40 years later, however, in 1968, a University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back of the head...