Word: hemlock
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...initiatives that approved assisted suicide had all the messy attributes of democracy, including emotional debate and dumb ads, but the state has carried out the law with care. Oregon hasn't become a Hemlock Society convention--only 15 people committed suicide with a doctor's help last year--and other states are mulling similar laws...
...President, his G.O.P. posse and the moralizing TV newsies with their "hideously bad acting." It's a smart challenge to lazy thinking. Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism. Hemlock, anyone...
...Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest northeast of Seattle have run her off the road. She shrugs. Washington and Oregon are where the big wave of U.S. logging ran out of room, and the timber wars there--between loggers and environmentalists over uncut remnants of ancient Douglas fir and hemlock forests--are not beanbag fights...
...video gave ammunition to both sides in the debate. "This was a very ill man dying a gentle, peaceful death in the time and manner he requested," says Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should see more people dying this way." Opponents saw it differently. "I certainly didn't see any compassion," says Ned McGrath, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit. "His last moment on earth, and he's left in a room with Jack Kevorkian and a video camera. What a horrible...
...assume that "natural" means safe, unless you want to risk ending up like Socrates, who committed suicide by drinking hemlock. More recently, folks have suffered liver damage from sipping teas brewed from comfrey, an herb that is used in poultices and ointments to treat sprains and bruises and should never be taken internally. Special note to pregnant women and nursing mothers: you should avoid a number of herbs, including Echinacea, senna, comfrey and licorice...