Word: considerations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several times a year, Harvard's full Faculty convenes to discuss academic policy, disciplinary cases, and other matters of high importance to the University. Two weeks ago, they gathered to debate increasing sensitivity to sweatshops and consider the dismissal of D. Drew Douglas. Students felt these issues so significant that...
There are at least three reasons why people consider suicide. The first is the result of a belief that one is in an impossible situation--no solution makes sense and the pain of facing this impossible situation leads to the conclusion that there is only one avenue of escape. This...
Confronting a loss of something or someone so essential to one's sense of self that it seems impossible to go on without it is the second reason people may consider suicide. This may also occur when one feels unable to live up to the expectations of others--the expectations...
A distinction can be made between suicidal behavior that reflects an overwhelming wish to die (and is therefore often successful), and behavior that is really an expression of a wish to live, but requiring help to do so. (It is ironic that sometimes one feels that the only way to...
The issues raised by this case deserve a more reasoned airing than that which will be provided by the flamboyant Kevorkian, who obtained judicial permission to represent himself on Monday. ?There is a strange glee about the way Kevorkian conducts his business, which makes it more difficult to talk about...