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...Harvard-MIT Broad Institute—along with the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School (HMS)—will be a part of the effort...
Steve Mason is ready for death. Since last December, the 65-year-old writer has kept four small bottles of clear liquid Nembutal-- a lethal dose of barbiturates--in his Ashland, Ore., condominium. And at some point in the next few months, when terminal lung cancer has spread to his liver or brain, when his breath is short and he feels too sick to eat or sleep, he will pick a day to gather close friends and family about him. He will give away his belongings and say his goodbyes. "It will be a celebration of life," Mason predicts...
Patients such as Steve Mason don't view it that way. A retired Army captain who served in Vietnam and has published three books of poetry, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer last April. Eventually, his longtime internist agreed to write his Nembutal prescription, but only after Mason cleared all the law's hurdles: submitting oral and written requests in the presence of two witnesses, waiting a mandatory 15 days and getting the concurrence of a second doctor that he had less than six months to live. "This isn't suicide," Mason insists. "Suicide means a needless taking of life...
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...
...Finally, for those that called in to that radio show, those of you who believe depression is a sign of weakness, I want you to think if you would ever call a cancer victim or someone suffering from AIDS weak. Cancer, AIDS, depression, and other mental illnesses are all sicknesses, and those who suffer from any of these ailments should not be belittled...