Word: patiently
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Last month, a California Superior Court judge decided that a 26-year-old cerebral palsy victim-Elizabeth Bouvia-may not starve herself to death under the auspices of the hospital where she is a patient "In conventional folklore, Elizabeth Bouvia might have been an inspirational figure," News-week wrote at the time True, she has led an incredibly difficult and heroic life. A quadriplegic, she lived on her own, earned a college degree, and got married (she and her husband have since separated). But now that she has decided she no longer wants to go on, experts who debate...
...marked contrast to the outcome of Bouvia's case, a New York Superior Court judge last week decided in favor of an 85-year-old man who wished to starve himself in a nursing home While the doctors have begun force-feeding Bouvia, the anonymous patient died Sunday. The New York judge's ruling, which mentioned the Bouvia case, was based on a number of differences between...
...MOST arguments about euthanasia have pointed out, there is a grave difference between "passive" and "active" euthanasia. In the one case, a doctor may simply choose not to revive a terminally-ill patient whose heart has stopped, "letting nature take its course." In the other, a doctor actually may administer a lethal drug to put an end to a patient's suffering...
...four-man coaching staffand, last June in Colorado Springs, held tryouts for Sarajevo. From an original list of 250 amateurs, the coaches chose 80 top skaters. Vairo was looking for players fast enough to cover the wider Olympic rinks and adaptable to what he calls "sophisticated pond hockey"-the patient game of weaving and passing that wins Olympic medals, as opposed to the dump-and-chase, bump-and-grind National Hockey League variety...
Some see The Words to Say It as a novel about the experience of psychoanalysis. Analyst Bruno Bettelheim writes, "in my opinion The Words to Say It is the best account of psychoanalysis as it is seen and experienced by the patient." But Cardinal contends that her message is a more general one. "I never intended to write a book about psychoanalysis. I wanted to write about imperialism and colonialism. I wanted to write about the life of two women, a mother and a daughter. Since I had been analyzed, I decided to use psychoanalysis as a literary vehicle between...