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...years of lying on your back looking up at the ceiling." He says he would love to debate the critics who charge that he is too hasty in deciding who may die. "I will argue with them if they will allow themselves to be strapped to a wheelchair for 72 hours so they can't move, and they are catheterized and they are placed on the toilet and fed and bathed. Then they can sit in a chair and debate with...
...alternative was a hospice in Atlanta, where the Mirins' nephew lived and where they had already purchased their grave sites. Metro Hospice brought to their nephew's home a wheelchair, hospital bed, special padding, oxygen. They provided care and pain medication during Maxine's last four days. "She was not able to talk, but she was able to hold her hand out to me. She knew I was there and that I loved her and valued her life." Mirin was charged "not even 10 cents" for the service; it was all covered by Medicare...
...know, just made the candy look better." Sue took a room three houses down the street, and married Les the day she turned 21. Her mother forgave them, but not in silence. "She would say, 'You're crazy to marry him. He'll probably end up in a wheelchair with you having to take care of him,' " recalls Mary...
Would it be appropriate to invite a Latina if she were virulently anti-Semitic? Is it acceptable to invite a man who uses a wheelchair even though he is a self-proclaimed racist? Asserting that Powell's achievements outweigh his bigotry is exactly the type of divisive behavior Kelly condemns in his letter: "it is counter-productive if victims of discrimination lash out at other victims...
Appleyard would lay the woes of the 20th century at Stephen Hawking's wheelchair. Commenting on Hawking's oft-expressed hope that physicists may soon construct a theory that would unite all the forces of nature into one mathematical equation suitable for a T shirt, a so-called theory of everything, he declaims alarmingly that it could be used to predict that "a particular snowflake would fall on a particular blade of grass or that you would be reading this now." Never mind that such deterministic ambitions died long ago with the discovery of quantum uncertainty. Faced with that prospect...