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...divisions over euthanasia have largely healed. Polls in the U.K. and France show up to 80% support for legal changes that would allow patients enduring extreme suffering from a terminal illness to request medical assistance to shorten their lives. "The consensus in the Netherlands is that we don't prolong life just because we technically can," explains Johan Legemaate, legal adviser to the Royal Dutch Medical Association. "When a treatment does not improve the patient's situation, a doctor is obliged to stop...
...around Harvard and I see all the research going on to prolong life,” he said. “All of that effort is being destroyed by bombs, bullets, and high tech armaments which threaten to destroy...
...psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. By showing the women how to approach dying with courage and how "to say goodbye in poignant, meaningful ways while living to the end," Kissane adds, SEGT is worthwhile even if it turns out not to prolong life...
...prolong life? That tantalizing prospect was raised in 1989 with the publication of a smaller study of women with advanced breast cancer by Stanford University's David Spiegel, who found that participants who'd received SEGT lived an average 17 months longer than those in the control group. The implications seemed enormous: if psychological intervention could help people with advanced cancer, what might it do for those in the early stages of the disease? Alas, while several replication trials have since supported Spiegel's findings, an equal number have done the opposite. Kissane, along with the Thursday Girls' current therapists...
...current situation and an opportunity to prevent a problem from spreading or becoming more prominent. He has not portrayed the data collection effort as the start of a crusade against institutionalized racism ingrained into Massachusetts police departments and has so far said he will resist any efforts to prolong such collection...