Word: infirm
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...darker skin tone were somehow less than human beings, and therefore to be enslaved or disposed of as those Americans saw fit; fortunately, such people were eventually prevented from acting on their particular definition of human life. I am not free to redefine life as excluding the old, the infirm, or a child the moment after it has been born. I may think whatever I please, but my action is limited to those things which do not injure my fellow human beings. That protection that the law gives to those around me is already the legislation of morality, which...
...graduate of Harvard College and write after learning about the situation regarding health care benefits for part-time clerical and technical workers at Harvard. Many of these women and men work very hard for Harvard while at the same time caring for their elderly parents, infirm spouses or young children. Many others take courses in the hope of bettering themselves and continuing their education...
...will be old, infirm and, inevitably at some point, near death. You may or may not be in physical distress, but in an age of crushing health-care costs, you will be a burden to your loved ones, to say nothing of society. And thanks to courts that back in 1996 legalized doctor-assisted suicide for the first time in American history, all around you thousands of your aging contemporaries will be taking their life...
...course, the judges who plumbed the depths of the Constitution to find the "right" to physician-assisted suicide--a right unfindable for 200 years--deny the possibility of such a nightmare scenario. Psychological pressure on the elderly and infirm to take drugs to hasten death? Why, "there should be none," breezily decrees the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Simpson defense team ran into some heavy battering -- from its own witnesses. Among the damaging testimony and evidence elicited by prosecutors: a doctor who said that although Simpson was physically infirm, he would have been fit enough to commit the murders; an O.J. workout videotape made shortly before the murders in which he jokes about punching "the wife"; and a police photographer who said bloody socks never showed up in a tape he made of O.J.'s bedroom because they had already been collected by police...