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Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-19 | Page 1 | Incurable Girl Won't Seek Mercy Death, but Looks forward to Discovery of Cure

Type issue
Date 1935-11-19
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Incurable Girl Won't Seek Mercy Death, but Looks forward to Discovery of Cure
Type article
Date 1935-11-19
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text Incurable Girl Wont Won't Seek Mercy Death But Looks Forward to Discovery of Cure Editors Editor's note Miss Anna Becker Beck Beck- er cr of Buffalo N. N Y 1 Y last week implored tho the Eric Erie County Medical association to give o her a mercy death because use she Is hopelessly crippled Today loday Miss Aliss Pauline Ray Bay hopelessly ly paralyzed observed observed observed ob ob- served her tw twenty third nt birthday and and her fourth in a u wheelchair b by by expressing a desire to live Uve regardless of of whether she sho walks again Copyright 19 1935 United Press BRENNER TER HEIGHTS Jan Ian Nov 19 19 Miss Miss Paulino Pauline Ra Ray celebrated celebrated celebrated cele cele- her twenty-third twenty birthday today as happy as any young oung lady with numerous presents scores of visitors and hundreds o of letters and cards In fact act she couldn't have been much happier if It able ablo to walk which she sho isn't Miss Ray hasn't walked since sinco September 23 1932 when she was in an automobile accident She cant can't move her body or touch her hair with her hands She can move her head from side to side though And she can smile Miss Ray was sorry that Miss Anna Becker of Buffalo N Y wanted to be killed tilled because the doctors said she would never be bewell bewell well again I 1 couldn't ever ask anyone to take my life no matter what the said I future was Miss Ray dont don't feel that we have the right to decide those matters It is for tor God Cod I think Of course coursol I dont don't want to criticise I else cise Miss Becker Perhaps she doesn't have a family to care for her as I do or friends to visit herThen herThen herThen her Then too I firmly believe that some day Ill I'll walk again or at least use my hands and be useful useful useful use use- ful Miss Ray continued Tho The doctors told mo me at first that I couldn't live Jive They say now that I will never be any better but maybe they will bo be wrong again God could cure curc me mc you know or he could 1 permit the doctors doctor to discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover something that would cure me It That makes me an incurable case she said but the other day American doctors said to today's days in incurable In- In curable case might be curable through new discoveries tomor tomor- row So maybe next birthday Ill I'll be cured In any event I wont won't s sack k death Y
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