Word: ills
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...announcement was made by the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, in Edinburgh. Press reports identified 10 victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, all under the age of 42. They most likely contracted the disease through contact with BSE. Eight of them have died, and the remaining two are gravely ill. All 10 are believed to have come in contact with the virus before 1989, the year the government banned the use of nervous tissue and offal for animal or human consumption...
DEBI THOMAS, 29; CHICAGO, ILL. U.S. and World Skating Champion In the 1988 Winter Olympics, Debi Thomas was America's favorite against the communist bloc's darling, Katarina Witt. Katarina claimed the gold. Debi stumbled and received the bronze. Though she competed professionally for nearly four more years, Thomas has chosen to pursue life outside the rink. She graduated from Stanford and is now a third-year medical student at Northwestern, planning to specialize in surgery. She has been married and divorced, has done broadcasting work and gives occasional motivational speeches. While medicine will consume her foreseeable future...
...decision, Judge Stephen Reinhardt said, "There is a constitutionally protected liberty interest in determining the time and manner of one's own death" that can outweigh the state's interest in preserving life. Washington's law, ruled the court, violates the right of mentally competent, terminally ill adults to choose "a dignified and humane death...
DANIAL DANZER KNEW HE WAS DYING of AIDS. Of all the fears he faced, losing his mind was the worst. When his faculties started to fade, he wanted to hasten his death. But his doctor could not help; Washington State law prohibited physicians from assisting the terminally ill in committing suicide. So Danzer stopped taking his insulin. After five days of convulsions, he finally died. Says his partner, Jeff Halsey: "He might have been spared some of his greatest pain and retained some of his dignity if he and his physician had received help from a compassionate code of laws...
...federal appeals court on assisted suicide, dramatically extends the right to die. "It advances it not by steps but by leaps," observes law professor Alan Meisel of the University of Pittsburgh. While previous decisions, most notably the Supreme Court's in the 1990 Cruzan case, have held that terminally ill patients can refuse medical treatment, the new ruling declares that they also have a right to seek assistance in dying from doctors--and pharmacists and family members...