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Watching a child suffer from a fatal illness is undoubtedly one of the greatest agonies a parent can face. Less discussed, however, are the lengths to which a parent may be willing to go to end such pain...
...doctor to hasten their child's death and that 13 parents actually discussed it with caregivers. When asked by the study authors, an additional 34% of the parents said that in retrospect, they would have considered intentionally ending their child's life if the child had been in uncontrollable pain. "The fear of pain is the critical factor for parents with regard to hastening death," says Dr. Joanna Wolfe, one of the study's authors and the director of pediatric palliative care at Dana-Farber and Children's Hospital Boston. (See TIME's photo-essay "Cancer Survivors' Inspirational Stories...
...GOSLING, BBC presenter, in a TV documentary on dying, saying that he euthanized his terminally ill partner "years ago" to relieve his "terrible pain." Police are investigating the claim...
...netroots bloggers who have largely engineered the party's comeback since 2006. For his part, Lieberman accuses many of those same actors of "political tribalism" and calls their tactics "vituperative." But he admits that his defeat in a 2006 primary fight scarred him deeply and remains a source of pain. He has had virtually no contact with his state Democratic Party in nearly four years, and it's easy to see that the episode gnaws at him. "The loss in the 2006 primary was as difficult a moment personally as I've had," he says. (Lieberman entered the race...
...Patrick Massenat stares out at a concrete-smothered hillside. He recalls his 79-year-old mother, whose corpse he helped pull from the wreckage he's now helping to clear away. "It at least keeps you busy," says Massenat, 39, a local sanitation official. "Takes your mind off the pain." (See TIME's cover story on the Haiti earthquake...