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Death by Water
Every sea-born whale is born to drown, Save those lost few who crush their final breath On shore, amid the gawkers come from town To grieve, perhaps, that helpless...
The Mystery of the Aleph
The world God made is infinite”or not. Its essence is of matter”or of thought. If finite”how much more He could have made! If infinite”the same too may be said....
The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care
The ongoing public debate over the legalization of assisted suicide draws participants whose primary concern is not the issue itself but who find it the ideal occasion to advance...
Free to Die
“Manslaughter, I could understand how they would arrive at that. But murder? This? They must have been an astonishingly cruel jury!” Jack Kevorkian told reporter Jack Lessenberry. “You tell...
Discovering the Talmud
Consider the book we are talking about. It is written in two foreign languages, one of which is native to but one small country, and the other now spoken...
Strained Mercy
Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure By Herbert Hendin. Norton, 256 pages, $27.50. Somewhere there may be a swimming coach who has never been in the...
Mock Medicine, Mock Law
The first thing the coroner noticed was the bright pink blush of the cheeks—the artificial pink that only carbon monoxide gives its victims. And in Oakland County, Michigan, death...
