Darshak Sanghavi
PAROLED LAST month, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was never an attractive poster child for dignified and comfortable deaths for the terminally ill. That's too bad, because Kevorkian was on to something important: the confusing difference between so-called "comfort measures" (giving medicines like narcotics only to treat pain, but not cause death) and "euthanasia" (giving medicines that purposely hasten death) for terminal ... (Full article: 835 words)
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