Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD (71): Fred Schernecker 3-1--8; Arne Duncan 6-0--14; Bill Mohler 2-0--4; Keith Webster 9-0--23; Mike Gielen 3-6--12; David Lang 1-2--4; Kyle Dodson 1-2--4; Kevin Collins 1-0--2; Brain Mackey 0-0-0. Totals...
...their favorites which they attempt to perfect. "My favorite game is Life Force at Quincy House," says Scott. "You go through an android's body, into the stomach, hungs, kidneys, and you kill antibodies. I've never made it to the end, but I hear you finish at the brain, and there's this mutant cell..." His voice trailed off as the game began and he concentrated on manuevering his man through the 3-D screen, dodging threatening cilia, gas bubbles, and muscle tissue...
...Brain Death...
After he suffered a ruptured aneurysm of the brain in 1983, Massachusetts Fireman Paul Brophy lapsed into what doctors judged to be a vegetative state. Before his illness, Brophy had told friends that he would never want to live in a coma. "If I'm ever like that, just shoot me," he said. "Pull the plug." Accordingly, when Brophy failed to respond to therapy, his wife Patricia asked hospital officials to remove the feeding tube that kept him alive. They refused on ethical grounds, and she then filed suit, asserting that her husband had a right to die a natural...
...deep disagreements were sharply pointed up by the 4-to-3 Brophy decision in the Massachusetts high court. The majority, deeming feeding tubes too "intrusive," declared that medical advances require a distinction between death as traditionally conceived and "death in which the body lives in some fashion but the brain (or a significant part of it) does not." One of the minority judges accused his colleagues of consigning Brophy to a "gruesome death," and another said the court was improperly endorsing mercy killing and suicide...