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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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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A terminal leukemia patient must  have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to  do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive.  Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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A mother tells how she was forced to travel miles from home in severe pain and wait 23 hours for a hospital bed.
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A mother says her critically-ill son had to wait two hours for an ambulance  to be transferred to intensive care.
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PERTH, Australia -- Struggling in the raging flood waters, Jillian Searle had to make a choice: which son to hold on and which to let go.
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By Christine Armario, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 11--Edith Lilie and her sons could only watch as their family's Middle Island paint store went up in flames.   For 54 years, Ben's Paint Station had been the sustenance of her father, then her own family and now her sons.
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A mother who lost most of her belongings in an apartment fire begins to rebuild a sense of family life for her sons.
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When it comes to affairs of the heart, the law is a rather blunt instrument. Despite suggestions that the parents of baby Charlotte Wyatt - fighting a legal battle to insist that doctors resuscitate their
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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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As arguments rage over whether Iraq is sliding into civil war, one grieving family tells the reality of sectarian killings. Umm Luma Rumani was shot five times by a stranger who then asked her heartbroken niece, as she cradled Rumani's body, whether his work was done. Rumani's son, Osama, now curses the killers through his tears: "May God orphan you. May you lose your mother and go through this pain."
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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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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A mother whose nephew caused her son's death in a car crash is to be awarded damages.
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A mother has spoken of her loss after the body of a 48-year-old man and a 15-month-old boy were found in a flat.
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NANDIGRAM, India  - Hasina Bibi chokes back the tears as she remembers her 18-year-old son Salim, killed last month in a violent confrontation with communist party workers.
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The Birmingham family of desperatelyill baby Charlotte Wyatt face an agonising wait for a judge to decide if medics should save her.