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Dick Farris, a Portland photographer, saw his father and brother felled by incurable pancreatic cancer. When he came down with the same condition, "he asked his friends for a gun," says his widow Gloria. "He could smell the decay inside himself." But after getting the prescription from his family doctor, she recalls, "he was able to relax, knowing he had control over his death." He chose to die on a Sunday morning, surrounded by his wife's three daughters and 9-year-old granddaughter. Says Gloria: "He told us, 'If I had any more love in this room...
...Hare International Airport for apparently falsifying details on his visa application, al-Banna's life took a turn that led him down the path of radical Islam and ultimately to join the insurgency against the U.S. in Iraq. His odyssey ended on March 3 when al-Banna's brother Ahmed received a call on his cell phone from a man identifying himself as "one of your brothers from the Arab peninsula"--the term radical Islamists use to signify the core of the Muslim world, centered on the holy city of Mecca. Al-Banna's family says that...
...departing again for Saudi Arabia. Jordanian authorities have told Mansour that after leaving Jordan on Jan. 27, his son crossed into Syria, the favorite route for Iraq-bound jihadists. Throughout February, Ra'ed called home several times but seemed careful to avoid his father. He told his brother he had found a good job and that his living quarters were uncomfortable but he planned to change them. He vowed to make enough money so he and his brother could afford to get married...
...long goodbye. Last September the family of Jill Rudolph, 41, of Toledo, Ohio, voted 5 to 3 to remove her feeding tube. She had been in a persistent vegetative state since May, when she suffered multiple strokes. Her mother Joyce Moran voted against removal. Years ago, Moran's brother-in-law had needed six months to emerge from a coma; what if Rudolph needed that time too? The family compromised, agreeing not to take immediate action. But by November, Moran had gone through an intense period of prayer, research and discussion with the doctors and her priest...
...religious mania, Jessie rushes off to take care of her, back to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where Jessie grew up. (She's secretly grateful for any excuse to get out of the house.) On the island she meets a skeptical monk-in-training named Brother Thomas, who has a tortured soul and really nice eyes. Sparks fly. Serious, Thorn Birds sparks...