Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next morning on the flight line, these guardian angels suck in liters of pure oxygen, trying desperately to burn the alcohol out of their system before take-off time. Sure, you might die, but you're living life the way it's got to be lived...
...military advisers on the ground with the mercenaries. (The contras) haven't been able to advance with the $27 million, they won't be able to advance with the advice, so the U.S. will have to put combat units with them. When they do so, U.S. troops will die...
...water on the list of treatments that could be withheld. The council's decision reflects a growing concern in the medical community and society at large that death in America is too often controlled by machines rather than nature. In a sharp departure from the past, when most Americans died at home, an estimated 80% now die in hospitals or nursing homes, often surrounded by a thicket of tubes and life-extending apparatus. Public opinion surveys suggest that most Americans fear and oppose this invasion of one of life's most private moments. Last year a Louis Harris poll...
...A.M.A. decision was hailed by many advocacy groups last week as an important step in preserving the right to die with dignity. After "a period when technology was used indiscriminately, this returns us to common-sense medicine," declared A.J. Levinson, executive director of Concern for Dying in New York City. But there were bitter objections as well. "Deciding to begin selective starvation is a decision no civilization should make," said Philosophy Professor Patrick Derr of Clark University in Worcester, Mass. And dehydration, critics noted, can be a gruesome way to die (though just how much a comatose patient feels...
Glossy magazines have their appeal, and were this movie not so abominably bad, audiences would have been content to watch two beautiful people doing the F-thing for two hours. Yet, I suspect 9 1/2 Weeks will die on the vine, for audiences are willing to take emotional alienation only so far, and this type of fantasy is more like a nightmare...