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Others would try to outlast it, or at least outwit it, through cryonics, say (though it may be no coincidence that their most famous example is said to be Walt Disney). And others talk blithely of Dr. Kevorkian or 100,000 dead in Hiroshima, as if to avoid its more immediate implications for us. But the fact remains: this article will someday be posthumous. That face I touch will, in the not too distant future, be out of reach. Tibetan Buddhists meditate upon images of dancing skulls, and ancient Egyptians, during feasts, had skeletons brought to their tables...
...where debate flares around Dr. Jack Kevorkian and assisted suicide for the terminally ill, the Dutch decision troubles ethicists. "Terminal illness at least gives you some line to draw," says Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Critics are worried that Holland has pointed the way to "assisted suicide on demand."Can one say no to a despairing Vietnam vet or rape victim?"If you're worried about the slippery slope, this case is as far down as you can get," warns George Annas, health-law professor at Boston University...
...seemingly contradictory rulings, Michigan's Court of Appeals reinstated murder charges against Dr. Jack Kevorkian for assisting in the suicides of two women in 1991, but declared the state's ban on assisted suicide unconstitutional on technical grounds...
...Michigan jury unanimously acquitted Dr. Jack Kevorkian of a criminal charge under a state law prohibiting anyone from assisting in suicides. The jury decided that Kevorkian, who helped a terminally ill man kill himself in 1993, acted only to ease the man's pain and discomfort and not necessarily to end his life, an exception that the law permits. A day later, a federal judge in Seattle struck down a 140-year-old Washington state law against assisted suicide...
...jury began deliberation Thursday in the case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who is on trial for assisting in the suicide last year of a 30-year-old man suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. Kevorkian testified that "when your conscience says ((a)) law is immoral, you don't follow the law. That's what Gandhi said and Gandhi got what I'm getting...