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Seed has begun to remind pundits and editorial writers of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who provokes strong feelings by shattering the taboo against physician-assisted suicide. The technical challenge involved in ending a human life is trivial, however. Cloning is another matter. Ian Wilmut, the embryologist who produced Dolly, the first clone of an adult mammal, says there are "serious safety issues" involved in cloning a human. In his experiments with animals, a quarter of his lambs died within a few days of birth. Ultimately, it took 277 attempts to produce Dolly. "Should we really consider or allow experiments of this...
...ever pragmatic Tibetan has responded to this predicament by taking his cause directly to the world, traveling almost constantly (on a refugee's yellow "identity certificate"), answering questions in 20,000-seat pop-concert halls about everything from Jack Kevorkian to TV violence, and letting his speeches be broadcast live on the floor of London dance clubs. This has led to the unlikely sight of a "simple monk" (as he always calls himself)--born and raised in a culture that had scarcely seen a Westerner when the century began--now seeming as visible, and even as fashionable, a figure...
DETROIT: This time, some might say, he's gone a little too far. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the champion of assisted suicide who has helped anywhere between 50 and 100 terminally ill patients die, appears to have helped a woman kill herself in a church. The 74-year-old Nadia Foldes of New York, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, inhaled carbon dioxide late Thursday at a Catholic church somewhere in Detroit...
...Foldes' wish to die in a church ? and there was, according to Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger, a "sympathetic priest" at this establishment. But it was an utterly brazen act on the part of the man dubbed "Dr. Death," for the Roman Catholic church ? which has yet to comment ? is one of his staunchest enemies...
...Kevorkian delivered Foldes' body to the local emergency room in person ? the first time he has done so in over a year. The previous 17 Kevorkian patients were all found in Detroit motel rooms with notes to call Fieger. Could it be that Dr. Death is again making house calls...