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Article: AGONIZING OVER DEATH ETHICAL DEBATE SURROUNDS DENVER-BASED HEMLOCK SOCIETY'S RIGHT-TO-DIE CRUSADE.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 21, 1998
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Byline: Tina Griego Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
In the warren of Denver offices the Hemlock Society USA calls home, volunteers prepare letters asking for money.
Executive director Faye Girsh reviews the latest thank-you card, blue with the words: ``Let me die like a dog.''
And Lois Schafer picks up the phone.
``What is the illness?'' Schafer asks, cradling the receiver with one hand, scrawling notes with the other.
It could be Lou Gehrig's disease, cancer, AIDS, emphysema, lupus. Death nests in arms and legs that shake uncontrollably, in organs mottled with renegade cells. Sickness leaves men and women who can no longer ...