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...from Dignitas, an assisted-suicide group in Switzerland, where the practice is legal - for patients suffering "intolerable health problems." (In Belgium, by contrast, patients must be terminally ill.) Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting...
...people suffering from incurable conditions. Dignitas rents an apartment in the city where clients self-administer a fatal dose of barbiturates and slowly fade away while listening to their favorite music. "These people are like the ones who jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11," says Ludwig Minelli, Dignitas' director. "They want to be spared terrible pain and suffering. Helping them is a very humane thing." Not everyone agrees. Dignitas' work is fueling criticism at home and abroad, and a debate about the organization is expected in the Swiss parliament soon. Some critics accuse Dignitas of luring people...
...morbidity and somberness" creeps into his later work, says De Salvo. Though his paintings preserve the beautiful youth of Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli, in his self-portraits Warhol recorded his own hollow eyes, leathery skin and flagrantly artificial hair. De Salvo sees the preoccupations of someone growing older. She admits, though, that he feared death and was terrified of going back into the hospital, having been seriously injured in 1968 when he was shot by an unbalanced feminist...
...Liza Minelli posters. No politics. The founders of BOND, who recruited members with non-descript signs last week, promise a new social space where students can discuss sexuality--if they want...
...interrogate those boundaries of normality. To those who found some of our posters offensive (and it's remarkable that it's the same 20 posters that are mentioned in this debate without regard for the 90 or so that featured traditional Coming Out Day slogans, shocking statistics and Liza Minelli), ask yourself why you found them offensive...