Word: die
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...Moved by his parents' death and the belief that most Americans die badly, he created the Project on Death in America, to which he has committed $20 million in an attempt to improve the care of the dying and to bring death out of the closet...
After her death, in 1994, Soros gathered at his home a group of professionals concerned with issues of death--for instance, the fact that two-thirds of Americans die painfully, in hospitals or hospices. The group decided to put together an organization and, with stark simplicity, called it the Project on Death in America. Soros wrote it a check for $15 million. "It was an extraordinary experience," says Dr. Kathy Foley, who is PDIA's director as well as a professor of neurology at Cornell University Medical College and an expert on the treatment of pain. "Most of us were...
...telomeres, which serve as protective caps on the ends of chromosomes. After perhaps a hundred divisions, a cell's telomeres become so truncated that its chromosomes--site of the cell's genes--begin to fray, rather like shoelaces that have lost their plastic tips. Eventually, such aged cells die--unless, like "immortal" cancer cells, they produce telomerase, an enzyme that protects and even rebuilds telomeres. Scientists have long dreamed of drugs that would inhibit the immortalizing enzyme because, observes M.I.T. biochemist Robert Weinberg, "then maybe cancer cells would run out of telomeres and just poop...
Hacking off its fins and then throwing a shark back into the ocean to die is cruel. But fishing can also involve hooks and death by suffocation. As sentient beings, sharks and other fish deserve protection regardless of population issues. We can easily live without using them for food, medicine or other purposes. It is unfortunate that we, with our genius for economics, have not created alternatives for those who continue to practice a primitive livelihood. DAVID J. CANTOR Glenside...
...children, but he's terribly concerned about whether the way the law is written makes it more sensible for him to stay alive for another 10 years, until the estate-tax provisions take full effect, or to reconstitute his estate into a family farm and go ahead and die right...