Word: diese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To Dr. Cicely Saunders of London, her Anglican faith is essential to her work in the St. Christopher's Hospice she founded there. Like Mother Teresa's Nirmal Hriday, it is a home for the dying-cancer patients whom Dr. Saunders treats with heroin and other drugs to...
HUMBOLDT'S GIFT by Saul Bellow. An obscure old poet dies and his onetime protege suffers in this seriocomic meditation by a major American writer on the value of art and the price of success.
We have a friend who has requested that when he dies, his body be cremated and his remains sprinkled throughout Bloomingdale's. That way, he maintains, his wife will "visit" him at least once a week.
In regard to the Quinlan case [Nov. 3]: if the courts were to find in favor of the parents, a Pandora's box would be opened. If the courts were to judge that an act of omission by a physician in not prolonging life is homicide, then every patient...
Soon people start to die, in roads and fields. A young woman, an Untouchable, cries out deliriously for fish curry. Ananga gives her what she has, placing it right near the girl's hand: roots torn from the ground. But the girl dies, eyes open, without reaching out. A...