Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that love can triumph over class differences, physical metamorphoses and even death. It is the first film Beatty has produced with a happy ending, and, as he says, "Let's face it, what makes you feel good about the movie is that it says you're not going to die...
...Then another man, still alive, his hip mangled and bloody. But the blood was not my chief distress; it was my inability to make any sense of what I was seeing. In a famine, where no one kills but nature, there are no marks on the body when people die; nature itself is the enemy-and only government can save from nature...
With Megan, we set out on horseback through the winds of February and March, because he felt we should see the people dying. What we saw, I now no longer believe-except that my scribbled notes insist I saw what I saw. There were the bodies: the first, no more than an hour out of Loyang, lying in the snow, a day or two dead, her face shriveled about her skull; she must have been young; and the snow fell on her eyes; and she would lie unburied until the birds or the dogs cleaned her bones. The dogs were...
...die free from pain, never having to beg for medication to relieve pain, to be able to say goodbye to family and friends, is truly death with dignity. The hospice movement [June 5], so long overdue, is making these rights a reality...
...they are being sapped by "today's mass living habits ... by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music." His message: "No weapons ... can help the West until it overcomes its loss of will power ... To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material wellbeing. "At the heart of these problems, as he sees it, is the "rationalistic humanism "rooted in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, when "we turned our backs upon the Spirit and embraced all that is material...