Last right: when a friend asked for help, I couldn't refuse. Her choice haunts me still

Article Abstract:

The author relates how a friend with terminal cancer asked to be permitted to jump out of her 11th-story window. The friend, having witnessed her husband's agonizing death from colon cancer, wanted to die before the suffering became unbearable. The author eventually drove her friend to the hotel where she committed suicide.

Social aspects, Planning, Personal narratives, Suicide, Assisted suicide, Right to die

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Leakey's last angel

Article Abstract:

Birute Galdikas has been studying orangutans in the forests of Borneo since 1971. Her advocacy for the protection of the orangutan in its natural habitat has offended powerful people and interest groups in Indonesia, and she almost lost her permit to continue her research.

Research, Behavior, Biography, Natural history, Borneo, Orangutan, Orangutans, Galdikas, Birute

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Arctic refuse

Article Abstract:

A self-styled environmentalist learns to accept the need for using Joy dishwashing liquid to conceal the frequent discharge of oily bilge into the ocean, while working on an Alaska tugboat.

United States, Arctic, Humor and anecdotes, Pollution, Environmentalists, Environmental activists, Arctic Ocean

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