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...jump or foot away from the grave. Lamont wrote obsessively on the subject of death as a young man--philosophic studies, poetry anthologies, scientific debates on reincarnation and psychic phenomena. His thanatology concluded in a "higher hedonism" doctrine, which stressed living vitally, though ethically, since man is always a heartbeat away from nonentity...
Lamont's autobiographical venture came at a time when he saw Dartmouth's "Most Likely to Succeed" of 1930, Nelson Rockefeller, a heartbeat away from the temporal world's highest office. Maybe the inherent injustice in an ordering of the world in which Nelson Rockefeller can be president prodded Lamont to grab, finally, at immortality. If so, Voice in the Wilderness represents his most thoroughly human act to date...
...Heartbeat Away-Too Close...
President Ford must be kidding. The ex-Governor has failed in three attempts at another national office, the presidency. What is frightening is that Congress might forget this and confirm him. "A heartbeat away" is too close for comfort...
...that resuscitative and supportive mechanisms (heart-lung machines, pacemakers, electric shock treatment) are capable in certain cases of indefinitely preserving breathing and heartbeat, doctors are being forced to turn to the brain for critical signs of death. But even more than recent technical interventions, Hendin claims, it was the surgical revolution--reaching its peak with the first heart transplants of the late sixties--that did the most to "blur the shadowy line between the quick and the dead." Until a modern, ethical, legal, medical and religious definition of the death concept is established, doctors will be unable to make vital...