Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every American boy killed in Viet Nam from the time of that rejection until the day that peace talks do finally begin. Let the people of the world know that it is not all of America but only her highest leaders who quibble over "diplomatic etiquette" while men die...
...framed in the syntax of surprise. The syncopated speech patterns constantly shift away from familiar formulations. In An Interest in Life, a deserted mother observes: a woman "gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, or she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, men must do well in the world. I know that men are not fooled by being happy...
Finally, major mental illness is a painful and difficult problem for the patient and for the community. A person in the midst of a psychosis is not really (as the article and Dr. Szaz imply) free to choose whether or not to live or die for he is often impelled by totally unrealistic inner forces which are subject to reversal by both psychotherapy and chemotherapy. I don't feel a man should be permitted to kill himself because a voice which he hears in his head one week tells him this is his duty. I would not want...
...Like To Die...
Then Silvers turned to a young woman and her three-year-old son. He bent, down and asked the child, "What do you think it's like to die...