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EndNotes archive for Nov. 6, 2013

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 2013


Lovely R. Suanino, a respiratory therapist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., demonstrates setting up a ventilator. 
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Life's ending ~ our choice? 

If you were in a critically compromised health state (you determine what that means), would you choose to discontinue your life? An Indiana man did exactly that after suffering a fall. Tim Bowers, 32, fell out of a tree while hunting, crushing his C3, C4…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.