Word: exited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money, work, a restless wife or unruly kids, he can spend his time in crash-course therapy, discovering that, yes, his parents really did love him. Moviegoers in dead-end jobs and edgy relationships will wish they could live half as glamorously as Bob Jones dies. This is Final Exit, Hollywood-style: death warmed over...
...Cornell researchers investigated 144 New York City suicides by techniques suggested in Final Exit. At least 15 of the victims had consulted the book, and six of those had no physical problems at the time. Psychiatrist Peter Marzuk, who led the study, speculates that some of the suicides might have called for help or otherwise survived if they had used a slower method, such as a tranquilizer overdose. Only 30,000 of 300,000 annual suicide attempts are successful, but Marzuk fears that this ratio could go up if the plastic-bag technique continues to spread. Advocates for the right...
...controversial book Final Exit by Derek Humphry, former president of the Hemlock Society, suggests ways in which terminally ill patients can kill themselves easily and quickly. But could it increase the number of successful suicides among physically healthy people? That possibility is raised in a study by New York City's Cornell Medical Center, to be published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper notes a dramatic rise in the number of people who asphyxiate themselves by tying plastic bags over their heads, a method recommended in Final Exit for "self-deliverance" within three to four...
...undoubtedly agree with the current conventional wisdom that we must act only when we know when and how to get out, but that makes no sense; if a situation is benign enough to permit this, it probably doesn't require intervention in the first place, and a previously announced exit date merely invites troublemakers to outwait us. You distrust the United Nations, but you should not blame it for American errors. Lately the U.N., with American acquiescence, has tended to overreach, acting like the world government it is not; still the U.N. remains useful, not as an enforcer...
...Under PR, with the vote transfer process, evena very sophisticated exit poll could not tellyou," said R. Phillip Dowds, the president of theCCA...