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How Many Deaths Can We Live With?

April 26, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

There was no hesitation in sending them to their death so others could live: the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy. (© FlaglerLive)

The coronavirus emergency is raising ethical questions as communities reopen: how many deaths are we willing to live with, and whose deaths? The questions are at the heart of the debate on reopening, but are not being confronted honestly.

Homeless Man Known as Marc Smith, 45, Found Dead Near Flagler Plaza Parking Lot

May 10, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

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Marc Smith had been living in a lesser-known homeless camp off Old Kings Road and frequently sat beneath the State Road 100 I-95 overpass, where he was recently captured in an image.

‘Aggressive’ New Advance Directive Would Let Dementia Patients Refuse Food

April 2, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are common. Do not feed orders, not so much, but New York may be opening the way to giving patients with dementia that option.

Husband’s Arrest Adds Troubling Details To Wife’s Untimely Death on Point Pleasant

January 13, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

The scene at 6 Point Pleasant Drive Friday, where Faith Cummings died on Thursday in unexplained circumstances. (© FlaglerLive)

Used syringes were found in the house at 6 Point Pleasant Drive and Michael Cummings’s clothes were spotted with blood when he met a sheriff’s deputy. He was arrested for obstruction.

Congress Signals Opposition to Assisted Suicide; Proponents Fear State Laws in Jeopardy

February 19, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Henry Moore's 'Reclining Figure' (1951) (Wikimedia Commons)

A congressional committee voted to overturn an assisted-suicide measure in Washington, D.C., last week, signalling more willingness in Congress to possibly reverse more liberal state laws.

3rd Set of Human Remains Found in 4 Months as Dune Erosion North of Varn Park Uncovers Bones

November 28, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

Hurricane Matthew turned sand dunes like these, just south of Varn Park, into sand cliffs, eroding enormous chunks and exposing long-buried roots--or, as was the case in today's find, apparent human bones. (c FlaglerLive)

For the third time since August, authorities in Flagler County have been led to what they believe to be human remains, this time apparently uncovered by beach erosion caused by Hurricane Matthew.

A Right To Die, Even For 20-Somethings

May 15, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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The revelation that a 20-something woman chose to die from PTSD related so 10 years of sexual abuse tests the boundaries of assisted suicide, but not if context and compassion replace armchair judgments.

You’re Dying. But Most Doctors Don’t Know How to Tell You.

April 17, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Policy experts are urging more end-of-life conversations not just to accommodate patients’ desires, but to save money on aggressive medical interventions that patients and their families don’t want and that won’t prolong life.

Dead Person Found Decomposing Behind Walmart; Identity and Cause Unconfirmed

July 6, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The dead person’s identity and gender have not been positively identified nor a cause of death determined, with those questions pending an autopsy by the medical examiner’s office.

As Cremation Outpaces Burial Rates,
Jewelry Glitters the Afterlife

July 6, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Florida is well ahead of the nation in cremation rates, but for the first time this year cremations nationally will outpace burials. A jewelry industry is marking the shift.

Assisted Suicide In Your Back Yard: More Prevalent Than You Think

May 23, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Alfred Manessier's 'Fire' (1957).

People don’t talk about it, but assisted suicide happens in states where it’s not legal. Just over 3 percent of U.S. doctors said they have written a prescription for life-ending medication, and almost 5 percent reported giving a patient a lethal injection.

Death Becomes Them: In CRT’s “Grace and Glorie,” An Odd Couple Does Hospice (and Velveeta)

January 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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In Tom Ziegler’s “Grace and Glorie,” opening at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre Friday, two women are brought together in an unlikely friendship as one prepares the other for death.

Richard Mathews, Accused of Mercy Killing in Mother’s Death, Sentenced to Two Years

October 6, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Mary Shaw Mathews, 88, was found to have died by strangulation and over-medication on Feb. 21 at her Palm Coast home. Her son Richard told detectives that she had asked him to end her life as she had been suffering and declining fast. Today’s outcome reflected a judicial system grappling with the gray area between mercy killing, which is not allowed by law, and a form of induced death.

An Uncomfortable Question: Are Your Death Papers in Order?

May 29, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In the wake of Rebekah McCloud learning of the death of a friend of 30 years, her friend’s family called a number of times to ask if she knew where she kept her “papers”–life insurance policies, will, deed to the house, bank-account information, etc., which made McCloud think about her own papers. They were not in the order they should be in.

South Florida Appeals Court Rules Cremation Ashes Are Not “Property,” and May Not Be Divided

May 22, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

In what could be a first-of-its-kind case in Florida, a state appeals court Wednesday weighed into a burial dispute and said the cremated remains of a man are not “property” under law, and may not be split between his divorced father and mother, so each could have some remains to bury.

Trouble at the Tampa Bay Times, D.C. Decriminalizes Pot, Mozart’s “Kiss My Ass” Canon: The Live Wire

March 5, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The Tampa Bay Times is losing readers and money, Orlando gets its first natural gas station, Washington D.C. sees the light on pot, Hollywood, Fla. police has a problem, Sherwin Nuland dies, and Mozart’s potty mouth takes expression in a musical piece.

How Mom’s Death Changed My Thinking About End-of-Life Care

March 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

None of his years of reporting had prepared Charles Ornstein for this moment, this decision–whether, and when, to let his mother die. In fact, he began to question some of his assumptions about the health-care system.

When Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is the Humane Option

January 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

In oncologists’ offices and Alzheimer’s nursing homes, illness is not “a portrait in blacks and whites, but unending shades of gray, involving the most profound of personal, moral, and religious questions.” Including when may it be right to help end a life.

When Flagler’s Firefighters Are A Lot More Than First Responders

December 23, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

When the author’s father died at an assisted living facility in Palm Coast two years ago, paramedics had to be called in to take care of his aunt’s panic attack. What followed illustrates our first responders’ routine and largely unheralded heroism.

Capital Punishment As a Crime More Dreadful Than Murder: Dostoyevsky on the Guillotine

July 30, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

'The Triumph of the Guillotine in Hell' by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (1795)

The death penalty, in this passage from Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot,” is seen as a punishment mostly for what precedes it–and an indictment of those who impose capital punishment.

Jim Landon On Children’s Memorial Garden: “This Is Very, Very Personal For Some of Us”

July 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Palm Coast’s year-old Children’s Memorial Garden provoked rare emotions from the city manager Monday as the council wrestled with conflict over competing visions for the pastoral garden near Waterfront park.

God’s Plagues, Man’s Fates, Roth’s Nemeses

February 6, 2011 | Pierre Tristam | Leave a Comment

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With Nemesis, Philip Roth puts an end to to a quartet of novels about death, dying and disease. Roth’s books are as much elegy as honest preparation. There’s no faulting him for not deluding us.

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