Word: die
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...time addictions counselor Bill Partridge got to the shack minutes later, all hell was breaking loose. "The kids were screaming insults, throwing themselves around at the walls," recounts Partridge. "They said they wanted to die. They were all suicidal." The local Innu Council immediately chartered a plane to take the youngsters, under police escort, to a group home near Goose Bay, 186 miles to the south. Later, three more gasoline-sniffing youths were evacuated to await transfer to another native rehabilitation center...
...MOST PLACES, A DOCTOR WHO HELPS A TERMINALly ill patient commit suicide could face prosecution. But not in the Netherlands, which has just stepped into the vanguard of the right-to-die movement. Its parliament approved the world's most liberal rules on euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide. Both practices are still technically illegal, but doctors won't be charged if they notify coroners of their actions and if they follow certain guidelines. Among them: the patient must be mentally competent; must be suffering unbearable pain and request euthanasia repeatedly; and the doctor must consult a second physician before proceeding...
...After seeing those people die," Williams recalled last week, "I just said 'Goddammit, I don't want to die,' and I started running as fast as I could." Scrambling down the slippery, ash-coated outer slope of the cone, he and three other scientists were bombarded with boulders the size of TV sets. "They split open when they hit the ground," said McFarlane. "Inside they were glowing red." One of the flying boulders crushed to death Colombian geochemist Jose Arles Zapata. Williams was felled as well, but managed to drag himself to partial shelter behind a huge rock...
Williams and Mike Conway, from Michigan Technological University, said the thought of their wives and children made them determined to survive; McFarlane remembers wishing he had told his aging father that he loved him. "I was sure we were all going to die," he said. "The violence was shocking. Nature doesn't care -- there was no mercy out there...
...meal featured prime rib, tortellini and asparagus, some of Baird's favorite training-table food according to one anonymous dining hall employee (and die-hard Baird groupie...