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...Booth Gardner, who served as Washington's governor for two terms in the 1980s and '90s, is now leading a ballot initiative that, if approved, would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of narcotics to terminally ill patients who want to end their own lives. The campaign is personal for Gardner. Diagnosed more than a decade ago with Parkinson's disease, a debilitating condition, his first reaction was "how can I take control over this," he says. "Then I realized that there was no way I could. I wanted to change that." Gardner has repeatedly said he would...
More than 80% of American adults agree with Gardner, a new report shows. Another two-thirds support laws similar to Oregon's, which give people the "right to die" through physician-assisted suicide, according to the survey of 1,070 Americans released May 15 by ELDR Magazine, a publication aimed at senior citizens. More than 80% of respondents also said that, if terminally ill and in pain, they would want to be made unconscious even if it hastened death. "A painful or prolonged death is something everyone worries about," said Dave Bunnell, ELDR's editor...
Washington's proposed law would mirror Oregon's almost exactly. Proponents will have to collect 225,000 petition signatures by July 3 to get it on the ballot, and Gardner is confident they will do so. But if history is any indication, the initiative has little chance of passing in November. Voters have struck down dozens of similar "right to die" laws since the late 1980s, including in Washington State in 1992 when Gardner was governor...
...course, Mr. Gardner still made his unexpected climb from something resembling the very bottom of American society to the top. Whether or not some details were airbrushed or accentuated when rendering his story for the screen seems (and seemed to audiences) immaterial...
...First of all, Gardner never touched a Rubik’s Cube in rise to the top floors of the Dean Witter brokerage firm, yet Smith’s character is found repeatedly whipping through that Technicolor obstacle course of cognition. Why? Well, plot development—Gardner needs to have his ‘prodigy’ moment, of course—and because Will Smith likes Rubik’s Cubes. Furthermore, Gardner’s son—five in the film—was only a toddler when he was chasing the office job:no existential...