A Final Resolution. Fred Dickey.
by Dickey, Fred; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 79Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Magazine, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Assisted suicide | Cancer -- Patients | Older people -- Suicidal behavior | Oregon -- Legislature | Right to dieDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Howard L. Wildfang makes it a point to stay busy while he waits to die. He has been a man of determination for all his 85 years, and when his sickness finally closes its circle, he will quit life on his own terms....He will take his own life...If Wildfang lived anywhere else in the U.S., his legal death would have to be in nature's own time and way. Oregon is the only state that allows assisted death for the terminally ill." (LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE) This article relates the story of the death of Mr. Wildfang, who suffered from untreatable cancer, and opines that assisted suicide will become more of an issue as the baby boomer generation ages.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.
Originally Published: A Final Resolution, July 18, 2004; pp. 22+.
"Howard L. Wildfang makes it a point to stay busy while he waits to die. He has been a man of determination for all his 85 years, and when his sickness finally closes its circle, he will quit life on his own terms....He will take his own life...If Wildfang lived anywhere else in the U.S., his legal death would have to be in nature's own time and way. Oregon is the only state that allows assisted death for the terminally ill." (LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE) This article relates the story of the death of Mr. Wildfang, who suffered from untreatable cancer, and opines that assisted suicide will become more of an issue as the baby boomer generation ages.
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