Word: ills
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While we have been aware for some time of allegations that the DNC broke the law by accepting contributions from individuals with strong ties to Southeast Asia and China, its questionable practices have failed to capture much public interest. Like Whitewater, the many details of the scandal make it ill-suited for captivating the masses in this age of the sound bite...
Gillette, a native of Lake Forest, Ill., who now lives in the Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, says that as an undergraduate, he never imagined he would one day be the Square's center attraction...
Euthanasia is far more prevalent than assisted suicide (the Dutch make little moral or legal distinction between the two). Most patients were ill from cancer, and the large majority had less than a month to live. While more patients sought euthanasia or help with suicide in 1995 than before, doctors remained hesitant, turning down two-thirds of the requests...
...Dutch claim their system has built-in safeguards. For one, most people still rely on a family doctor,which reduces the risk of routinized euthanasia by an impersonal system. For another, Holland's welfare state is alive and well. Nursing care for the chronically ill is good, and everyone's medical expenses are covered, so finances are not a factor...
...many terminally ill patients and their families, it's having the option that counts. When Annemie Douwes Dekker's husband Hink was first told he had multiple sclerosis in 1978, his family doctor agreed to discuss the possibilities of euthanasia if and when the time came. "That was a great help to us," Annemie recalled. Five years later Hink, then 50, had been in a nursing home for a year and was deteriorating rapidly, losing his ability to communicate and control bodily functions. Yet, says his widow, now 62 and living in Haarlem, "he had a strong heart; he could...