Word: lethality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors rather than lawmakers. If a patient is terminally ill and unconscious but has left instructions in a living will, 81% believe the doctor should be allowed to withdraw life-sustaining treatment; 57% believe it is all right for doctors in such cases to go even further and administer lethal injections or provide lethal pills...
...uncomfortable about withholding food and water, they are profoundly uneasy about actively assisting a suicide. Yet a seemingly / inexorable logic enters the picture: once it is acceptable to stand by and allow a patient to die slowly, why is it not more merciful to end life swiftly by lethal injection? What was once taboo is now openly discussed in academic journals: last March the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by twelve prominent physicians called "The Physician's Responsibility Toward Hopelessly Ill Patients." "It is difficult to answer such questions," the doctors wrote...
...cannot be at the mercy of your body any longer." In 1986 she allegedly advised Isaacson to take an overdose of cardiac medicines, which resulted in a coma. The next year Jenks allegedly emptied 29 Seconal capsules into a container of yogurt and spoon-fed her patient with the lethal mixture. At the last spoonful, Isaacson balked and decided she wanted to live. Jenks was able to induce vomiting, and Isaacson was saved. Later, Isaacson claims, Jenks persuaded her to take an overdose of cardiac drugs and morphine, which she managed to sleep off. Finally, the suit claims, Jenks watched...
...challenger as a mediocre one by the champ. Tyson looked stolid, muzzy, otherwise engaged. He stood around like a fire hydrant in black shorts, an easy target for Douglas' advantages of height (5 1/2 in.) and reach (12 in.). The champ threw few punches, and fewer of his lethal paradiddles -- left-right-left-right! -- that turn his victims' heads into punching bags and their guts to soup...
...discover an astonishing sight: the army lines have been pulled completely back. The square is packed with Tadzhiks listening to their leaders addressing them through a microphone from atop a Soviet army APC. From Tadzhiks in the street we learn that the rattled authorities have agreed to halt lethal confrontations with the angry crowds. "The people demand the resignation of the government!" shouts one speaker. Others call for an end to the sale of pork in public markets, the punishment of soldiers and militia responsible for shooting civilians, even the departure from Tadzhikistan of all who are not Tadzhiks...