Word: colene
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...about death. In the course of a few decades, America has succeeded in taking the notion of death out of the home, out of the healthy public's mind, and shoving it into the back rooms of hospitals. In the course of a few years, Washington Post reporter B.D. Colen has helped put death--and its controversies--back into the public view where it belongs...
...Colen is the Post's medical ethics expert and has written extensively on euthanasia and surgery. He "broke" the Karen Ann Quinlan story with a series of articles for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Since then, Karen Ann Quinlan's name has become famous, the result of some responsible reporting and a lot of sensationalism. But in Colen's book, Karen Ann Quinlan: Dying in the Age of Eternal Life, he doesn't waste time delving into Karen Quinlan's past or describing her present physical condition in gory detail. Instead, he concentrates on the difficult questions that...
...This is not a book about the substance of Karen Ann Quinlan's life," Colen writes. "It is, instead, a book about the meaning of her dying and death." So Colen mentions only in passing that Karen Quinlan mixed drugs with alcohol and lapsed into a coma on the night of April 14 last year. The real Karen Ann Quinlan story began long after she lost consciousness and her parents, Joseph and Julia Quinlan, had given up hope. The Quinlans asked Karen's physicians to remove the respirator that kept her alive--or rather kept her from dying...
...such hopeless cases, does the intentional disconnecting of a respirator constitute a murder? Colen says no, because the respirator is not prolonging the life of the patient, it is merely postponing an inevitable death. As simple as that. Don't talk about "quality of life" in the Quinlan situation, he says, because her life has no quality. She will never even reach the level of self-awareness of a mentally retarded child. Don't talk about million-to-one chances, because, in Colen's words, "Medicine doesn't deal with a million-to-one. It deals with what is best...
Keough and Colen jumped out quickly and by the two-mile mark had built up a lead of about 15 yards on Rojas, who was then running third...