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At the moment, most Americans seem to agree with Busalacchi. In a poll conducted last month for TIME/CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 80% of those $ surveyed said decisions about ending the lives of terminally ill patients who cannot decide for themselves should be made by their families and doctors rather...
Webster endorses new legislation that would try to find a careful resolution. He has already met stiff resistance from the Missouri legislature and has a hard fight ahead to change the laws. He proposes that families of patients who have been continuously unconscious for three or more years could petition...
It is not only families that must decide. Doctors are wondering when, in an era of untamed technology, they should stand back and let their patients die -- or even help death along. Economists are calculating a sort of social triage: at a time when infant mortality is scandalously high and...
For many physicians, the actions they take often depend more on circumstance than on moral certainty. How far is the patient from death? How great is the pain? How clear the will? Does the patient just want to be left alone, or is he asking to be killed? The Cruzan...
"Binging is being unconscious--it's an escape from reality," said Cumpston, whose battle with bulimia lasted nine years. She said eating was a way of curbing inner loneliness and dealing with problems of self-hate.