Word: died
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese affairs, first as a correspondent and then as confidant, adviser and sometimes as policymaker. In March, when U.S. Navy doctors in Honolulu told him he could not survive a lung and stomach cancer aggravated by long internment in a Japanese prison camp, his only wish was to die in China...
Said a doctor at a recent doctors' meeting: "Anyone in the room who has never helped a suffering patient die, please raise his hand...
...aggressive revival of an old argument: Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, sprightly, 85-year-old president of the society, gynecologist, artist, marriage counselor. He had drawn a bill for "dignified, merciful" killing. Under it, any patient over 21 who found life unbearable could apply to a court for permission to die; if an investigating committee of doctors and laymen approved, his doctor would get authorization to end his life painlessly (e.g., by a narcotic). The bill would do nothing about imbeciles or children born monstrously deformed...
Traubel's and Melchior's relationship is Falstaffian. In Die Walküre, when Traubel is left alone on stage, Melchior sometimes prances about the wings as a Rhine maiden in a grass skirt, to try to make her laugh. Once, when she leaned tenderly over his body on the couch in the last act of Tristan, in the scene where Tristan dies of wounds inflicted by a jealous rival, Melchior muttered: "Helena, hurry up the Liebestod (love death). I'm hungry and I need a beer...
...revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again, he blew up his cell with smuggled dynamite, appropriated a horse and galloped north to the border...