Word: hemlock
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...make stands on stocks big and small, only to be overwhelmed by huge sellers. Take General Electric: on Friday I bought shares at $75, then $74 and then $73, and then I doubled down at $72 with 18 minutes left before the bell. For a minute, I wanted a hemlock cocktail, as it flashed on my screen that Microsoft had just overtaken GE as the world's largest capitalization stock. But then the mischievous GE seller disappeared. The stock rose right back to 75 7/8, putting the company's total market value back above that of Bill Gates...
Humphry, who founded the Hemlock Society, has been campaigning for lawful physician aid-in-dying for the terminally ill since 1978, when he helped his terminally ill wife...
...California passed a Living Will law, allowing individuals to express their own preferences for end-of-life care, including freedom from aggressive medical therapies. In 1980, Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society, the largest international public advocacy group lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to physician aid-in-dying. In 1990, the Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, including food and fluids, and to appoint a health care surrogate decision-maker. These milestones demonstrate the concerted policy shift towards patient autonomy and patient-centered care...
DIED. JANET GOOD, 73, Dr. Jack Kevorkian's aide who championed the right to die and started Michigan's Hemlock Society; in an apparent suicide, while suffering from cancer; in Farmington Hills, Mich...
...disproportion between human ability--mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...