I couldn't let her suffer

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Caring for someone who is great pain can be extremely distressing, according to Sophie Jones, who helped her mother, who was suffering from severe cancer, to die by giving her an overdose of morphine. Her mother had in earlier life helped her own mother to die under very similar circumstances. It is possible that such incidents are fairly common, but the vast majority go unrecorded, as the people responsible are very unwilling to confess.

Author: Boggan, Steve
Interview, Euthanasia, Jones, Sophie

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Parting advice of Marje, the nation's agony aunt

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Agony aunt Marjorie Proops, who died recently, dealt with many thousands of letters detailing people's problems over a period of more than 42 years. She talked openly about controversial subjects such as drugs and homosexuality, but always took care to remain sensitive. In later life, she confessed that her own marriage of 53 years was a sham, as she had for 30 years been having an affair.

Author: Boggan, Steve
Influence, Journalists, Personals, Proops, Marjorie

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The pain of the rose

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Some of the cut flowers purchased for Valentine's Day in the UK will have been produced in very poor working conditions in Africa or South America. Workers are frequently exposed to harmful chemicals.

Author: Boggan, Steve
Labor force information, Africa, South America, Nursery and Floriculture Production, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION--CROPS, Seeds, Flowers & Bulbs, Health aspects, Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, Agricultural policy, Horticultural products, Horticultural industry

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