Word: hemlock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...died last. Instead, President Clinton, in the usual spray of condolences, may have hit the mark when he called the suicides "so isolated that they can create a world for themselves that may justify that kind of thing." Create it they had. And each had taken his hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity to attain the afterlife. "We fully desire, expect, and look forward to boarding a spacecraft from the Next Level very soon (in our physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been...
...southeast Alaskan coastal glaciers lies Tongass National Forest. Don't let the Alaska address fool you: Tongass is a rain forest. Protected from snow by the tree canopy and from the frigid air by the warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser trees fuel pulp mills that...
...YOUR HEMLOCK?" THANKS TO APPEALS-court judges in New York and California, this question will now be in your future...
...take its course--and actively killing someone. In the first case the person is dead. In the second he only wishes to be dead. And in the case of life sustained by artificial hydration or ventilation, pulling the plug simply prevents an artificial prolongation of the dying process. Prescribing hemlock initiates...
...controversial book Final Exit by Derek Humphry, former president of the Hemlock Society, suggests ways in which terminally ill patients can kill themselves easily and quickly. But could it increase the number of successful suicides among physically healthy people? That possibility is raised in a study by New York City's Cornell Medical Center, to be published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The paper notes a dramatic rise in the number of people who asphyxiate themselves by tying plastic bags over their heads, a method recommended in Final Exit for "self-deliverance" within three to four...