Obit: Kubler-Ross Redefined &#39;Language&#39; of Dying
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Description: NPR&#39;s Karen Grigsby Bates reports on the death of psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author of On Death and Dying and a pioneer of the modern hospice movement.
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Among the final projects in the long and impressively industrious life of Merv Griffin, who died of cancer last month, was a new game show devoted to one of the passions that presumably sustained his mental agility through his 82 years. Called âMerv Griffinâs Crosswords,â the half-hour show made its debut on syndicated television last week, and it could easily renew troublesome questions about Americaâs cultural literacy and thus its future role in the world.
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(Dec. 28) -- Author and activist Susan Sontag has died. She was 71 years old. News of her death came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City Tuesday morning.
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Writer and activist Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s greatest public intellectuals, died Tuesday in Manhattan at the age of 71. Her grave and glamorous appearance made her a popular icon of the writer as a nation&#39;s
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WASHINGTONâChristopher Reeve&#39;s death has added another layer of emotion to what already had become a volatile debate over stem cell research on the US campaign trail.
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Robert Kupperman, a government scientist who started warning of terrorist attacks against the United States more than 30 years ago, has died of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 71.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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COLDWATER, Mich., June 1 -- Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist dubbed "Dr. Death" for claims that he had participated in at least 130 assisted suicides, left prison Friday after eight years still believing people have the right to die.
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US author Susan Sontag, who was regarded as a leading activist and intellectual, has died in New York. She was 71. Sontag, who had been battling leukaemia, died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the city where she was born.
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The recent death of a middle-aged Alaska woman admitted to Harborview Medical Center for severe, unexplained dementia is being investigated by one of the nation&#39;s leading experts in prion diseases -- a category of illnesses that include so-called mad cow ...
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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Obituaries for newspapers are already being written in the United States and much of Europe, with the rise of the Internet and shrinking attention spans listed as the causes of death.
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Readers respond to the tragic death of CNET editor James Kim and reflect on the Luddite's Renaissance man. Plus: Links to our most commented-upon blogs.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-born psychiatrist and author who gained international fame for her landmark work on death and dying, has died in her suburban Phoenix home.
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Two days ago, surrounded by children, grandchildren and two close friends, the woman who made it acceptable and imperative to talk openly about death and dying was asked whether she was ready to &quot;transition.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.