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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps not. Although recruits are constantly being reminded of legion tradition, there are usually about 200 deserters at large at any time. As a commander once declaimed: "You legionnaires are soldiers in order to die and I am sending you where you can die." Today, the French army is not so quick to send them to that fate. Early this year a number of commandos left the legion -in order to join the Rhodesian army...
...death can be fully accepted by the man or by his family, a hospital official calls aside the patient's wife. He tells her that since the hospital can do nothing more for her husband, he must be discharged and she must find another place for him to die...
Most hospices in the U.S. take as their model London's St. Christopher's Hospice, founded a decade ago by Dr. Cicely Saunders. The primary goal of the London hospice and its American cousins is to help people die with as little discomfort and as much serenity as possible and live as individuals during the weeks and months left to them...
...does more than increase her love, it also saps her strength and undermines her health. Her weakness makes her still more dependent on Momo, which further heightens his love for her. At the same time it forces him to realize that someday soon she will die and there will be no one left who needs him or whom he will want to need, in turn...
...third time he returns to her is permanent, in terms of the movie, after Madame Rosa's death. He and the dying woman lock themselves up in a wine cellar she had converted into her "Jewish hideaway" so she could die there rather than in a hospital; she does. Momo doesn't eat and leaves only once during the three weeks he stays with the body. Firemen break through the cellar door and discover both the body and Momo. They also find Madame Nadine's number in his pocket and call...