Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martian landscape and domed cities are good, but some may mind that basic physics, chemistry and planetary geology are completely ignored. One example of Total Recall's revised laws of nature: bad guys die instantly in a vacuum, but good guys live long enough to be rescued. Another: melting ice releases oxygen...
...before her suicide she beat her 32-year-old son in a tennis match. It was more her dread than her disease that drove her to seek Kevorkian's help. Even before her illness she had joined the Hemlock Society, a group that supports terminally ill patients' right to die by means including assisted suicide. But in her home state of Oregon, such means are illegal, and doctors at her hospital say they never advise suicide as an option...
Though some right-to-die advocates called him "a brave pioneer," doctors , and ethicists challenged Kevorkian on both moral and procedural grounds. Even groups that sponsor "death with dignity" legislation are careful to include safeguards to prevent the laws from being abused. Most require that patients make a witnessed, legal request in writing, with two independent doctors confirming that the patient's condition is unbearable and irreversible. Says Susan M. Wolf of the Hastings Center: "Even the staunchest proponents of physician-assisted suicide should be horrified at this case because there were no procedural protections...
When I once asked Father if he weren't bored by telling the same stories over and over, he slyly narrowed his eyes and said, "I'm an old man. When I die, all this will die with me. This way, maybe someone will remember. What I'm recounting is the very history they'd like to bury as deep in the ground as they can. But you can't hide the truth, it will find...
...Father dictated one reel after another, he began to agonize about what would happen to his memoirs. "It's all in vain," he would say during our Sunday walks. "Our efforts are useless. Everything's going to be lost. As soon as I die, they'll take it away and destroy it, or bury it so deep that there'll be no trace of it." Deep down I agreed with him. The fact that everything was quiet now didn't mean that it would continue that way forever...