Word: hemlock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When a Michigan judge dismissed murder charges against him but advised him against continuing his crusade, Kevorkian replied that he would never shirk his "medical duty. If my colleagues won't work with me, I will work alone." In 1988 Kevorkian suggested to founder Derek Humphry that the Hemlock Society, which supports euthanasia for the terminally ill, join forces with him and set up a suicide center. Humphry's response was "We're not lawbreakers, we're law reformers." But he recalls that Kevorkian insisted that such a center would get them publicity. "There are many people in the Hemlock...
...their state voted. As Berman sees it, Perot could benefit if Bill Clinton fares poorly in the popular vote. "A lot of members," Berman says, "might prefer this diamond in the rough to four more years of gridlock with Bush." To some legislators, every option could taste like political hemlock. Ducking the decision equals cowardice. Backing a candidate unpopular at home risks constituents' wrath. Crossing party lines imperils any politician's future in public office...
Socrates did not say the untelevised life is not worth living. He said the unexamined life. The unexamined death is a waste too. Socrates spent the hours before his execution by hemlock in 399 B.C. discussing the immortality of the soul. Reflection is not television's strong suit. The medium is a fairly crude moral filter, a kind of brilliant, overstimulated cretin. Its brain waves are discontinuous...
...Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough, Stone's tortured artistic mission -- dispensing downers to a movie public famously addicted to escapism -- has its upside. He pours so much dramatic juice into the hemlock blender that folks go to his films, and official Hollywood has rewarded Stone with three Oscars...
...Humphry says that "suicide for reasons of depression has never been part of the credo of the Hemlock Society...