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These lyrics of both rappers seem eerily prescient in the wake of their murders. Both men were obsessed with death. Tupac repeatedly stated in interviews and on his records that he believed that he would die early. His last album, released posthumously under the alias Makaveli, features bitter and furious death threats aimed at New York rappers, including Biggie Smalls. Biggie also indicated that he feared and perhaps expected an early death. His first album was titled "Ready to Die;" his second album, "Life After Death," will be released March 25, and its cover art features the Notorious B.I.G. standing...
...well. In the 1992 case before the court, cattle ranchers and farmers in Oregon had sued to recover some $75 million in damages after the government cut off water to farms and ranches during a drought to help preserve two endangered species of fish downstream. Farmers watched their crops die, and ranchers were forced to sell cattle they couldn't feed. The case will now head back to the lower court for reconsideration...
Inevitably, of course, there are abuses, and flagrant ones are prosecuted. Sippe Schat, a doctor from northern Friesland, goes on trial later this month for the alleged murder of a 72-year-old cancer patient who had seemed in good spirits just before she died in a nursing home. According to prosecutors, Schat simply gave her a lethal shot of insulin without consulting anyone and left her to die alone, allegedly telling a nurse as he left, "If she hasn't died by 7 a.m. tomorrow, give me a call...
...Koerselman, one of the few in Holland to buck the consensus. "Patients are scared by pain and the loss of their dignity, so they immediately start talking about active euthanasia," he said. "They are badly informed about alternatives." In particular, says oncologist Zbigniew Zylicz, who runs a hospice for dying cancer victims outside Arnhem, "the knowledge and practice are very low for palliative care," the art of easing pain in the final stage of a terminal illness. Zylicz estimates that a quarter of the 400 or so dying patients he has treated asked first for euthanasia. After counseling and skilled...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...