A place between life and death
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With families every day making agonizing decisions about a loved one in a coma and famous &quot;right-to-die&quot; cases of the past such as Nancy Cruzan and Karen Quinlan, what is it about Terri Schiavo?
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By ANNE JOHNSTONE  THE history of life on earth is, in fact, the history of death. About 20 years ago on a press trip to Kenya I spent a night in a leopard hide, a strange Heath-Robinson structure, like a home-made lighthouse in the middle of the Masai Mara.
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It&#39;s in the nature of athletes to imagine themselves immortal, if not impervious to harm, as though they live by a different set of rules from ordinary people.
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Fundamental issues of ethnic and religious identity and the agony of exile are at the heart of âLive and Become.â
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One night while channel surfing, I happened upon the odylic movie "The Bridge" on IFC. I tried to change the channel but was mesmerized and unable to look away. The movie is a hauntingly, beautiful tale of suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
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MY father died while planning his last trip home. An Irish emigrant who had gone to the New World, he suffered the usual homesickness, a homesickness that became more compelling with each passing year.
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COMMENTO                                          La morte del processo
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Conventional wisdom suggests that dying patients will cling to life if a holiday, such as Christmas, a birthday or a cherished anniversary is near.
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YASSER Arafatâs death is a development of monumental dimensions. The void it has left in one of the worldâs most disturbed and disturbing regions would be hard to fill, but filled it has to be.
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Un primo accertamento parla di morte naturale
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Where to retire depends on more than just money.
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For residents of these 10 towns, life can be a death sentence.
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Once again, hope flickers in the Middle East. There are encouraging signs that the death of Yasser Arafat is breathing life into hopes of reviving the peace process that Arafat had abandoned.
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In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.
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JANDI MERIAH, Indonesia -- Dowes Ginting, the most wanted man on Sumatra island, lay dying. He had abandoned the hospital where he had seen his relatives succumb one after another, and he had fled deep into the mountains, trying to outrun the black magic he feared had marked him next. For... When...
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Experts debate whether people at the end of life should be able to take experimental drug treatments.
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The Angels have been here before, and in that they find some solace.