A Fight for Life Consumes Both Mother and Son
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The writer Susan Sontagâs death, as set out in a short and immensely disturbing account by her son, David Rieff, must rank as one of the worst ever described.
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WITH her newborn baby cradled in her arms she looks the picture of wholesome motherhood. Yet the woman tenderly caressing her son is one of the most reviled women in the world.
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Our position is: State must find a way to provide better support for families of the mentally ill. Pamela Wohlhieter says being the mother of a son with paranoid schizophrenia often feels like crawling out of a &quot;bottomless pit.
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Tracy Miller thinks about her son's touch and his voice, trying to grasp that she will never experience either again.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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Six-year-old Valentin Marroquin went from being apparently healthy one moment to battling leukemia the next. As his mother Rosario Marroquin started searching for answers, she kept coming back to their Houston, Texas, neighborhood, and the stench that often envelopes it.
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GLASGOW-The righteous rage that powers Rose Gentle these days visibly drains from her face when she enters her late son's bedroom.
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Arts & entertainment: Rapper's mother attempts to stop her dead son's  former record label releasing more of his material.
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A bitter legal battle over whether the husband of a brain-damaged woman should be allowed to remove her feeding tube against the wishes of her parents reached the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday.
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A decade after Susan Smith strapped her sons in their car seats and let her car roll into a lake, carrying the boys to their deaths, residents are trying to move on. But for some, the case still evokes strong emotions &#151; even hatred toward Smith.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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Mother of two Jillian Searle had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision. Swept up by mountainous tsunami waves at a Thai resort, she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive.
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The father of a seriously ill baby girl  fought on Friday against a hospital's request to allow her to  die if she stops breathing, saying he and his wife were not yet  ready to let her go.
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The father of a seriously ill baby girl fought on Friday against a hospital&#39;s request to allow her to die if she stops breathing, saying he and his wife were not yet ready to let her go.
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Scott and Jill Stimell faced an agonizing choice: they could watch their child die, or pursue a drastic and painful treatment.
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HERI Golun&#39;s mother covered her face with her hands and rocked backwards. The news her son was a suicide bomber was almost too much to bear.
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On her deathbed, the mother of Fatah Islam leader Shaker Youssef al-Absi beseeched God to grant her son and his al-Qaida-inspired militants "victory" in his battle against the Lebanese army, his brother said Wednesday.