Word: fluting
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...this case neither doctor nor patient works very well as a symbol for the euthanasia debate. Adkins, a 54-year-old Portland schoolteacher, was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's. A strong, lively woman who loved hang gliding and mountain climbing and playing her flute, she was not yet very sick; the week before her suicide she beat her 32-year-old son in a tennis match. It was more her dread than her disease that drove her to seek Kevorkian's help. Even before her illness she had joined the Hemlock Society, a group that supports terminally...
...since spent many months in the shadow ofChartres, taken an extended "Pilgrimage" toBenares--which he describes as "the principleplace of pilgrimage for Hindus, truly a miraculousplace"--and three weeks writing flute music in aremote village in Cameroon, which he describes as"the most exciting thing I've ever done...