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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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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Eight years after losing her son to a hate crime, Matthew Shepardâs mother is fighting harder than ever for gay rights.
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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 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 mother is hoping to get some answers soon about how and why her son and two other students died in a fire in the freshman dormitory at Seton Hall University in 2000.
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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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Amid the countless tales of life and death emerging in the wake of Asia&#39;s deadly tsunami, an Australian mother&#39;s split-second decision encapsulates the horror of the tragedy.
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By ERIN RICHARDS  With his sister-in-law in critical condition after an April motorcycle crash in Muskego, Steve Whittow realized watching a loved one battle for life also brings communication difficulties.
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MONTREAT, N.C. -- It is a  struggle worthy of the Old Testament, pitting brother against brother, son against mother, and leaving the famous father, the Rev. Billy Graham, trapped in the middle, pondering what to do.
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Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom &#151; sobbing, wondering why no one came to help.
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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 31-year-old man is given life in jail for stabbing to death the mother of his child during an argument.
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Murder victim Laci Peterson&#39;s mother sobbed and screamed at her son-in-law, convicted killer Scott Peterson, on Tuesday as she testified on the first day of a hearing that will determine if he should live or die.
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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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A County Antrim man says his family is being terrorised after his son is attacked by a gang of men.
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Beyond her sorrow, the toughest dilemma Diane Quirley faced in the wake of her 23-year-old son Shawn&#39;s death in June 1997 was whether to donate his organs for transplant procedures.