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His students, many of whom are conservative Christians, are watching him die. They'd like to help him start the conversation. But he won't.
Gey doesn't pray for anything. An American Civil Liberties Union attorney and law professor at Florida State University, he ranks among the nation's top defenders of separation of church and state, of scientific inquiry, of rationalist, non-Christian governance.
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Gey was a much-quoted constitutional law expert during the battle over continuance of life support for Terri Schiavo. But no one is an expert on how to die.
His disease offers only agonizing choices.........
ALS saps professor's strength, not his ideals
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This spate of living will talk clusters around April 16, Health Care Decisions Day, following April 15 tax day.
When the Terry Schiavo case became national news in 2005, discussions took place among families, friends, even co-workers, about how we would want to be treated in similar circumstances. Arguments flared about whether Schiavo's husband or her parents should determine her fate. Unable to communicate her own end-of-life choices, and without anything in writing, the legal case had dragged on for years..........
Decide how to spend your final days
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