Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday November 30 1995 — Page 17 Your view Continued from Page 16 property owners were never fied of this intent of a 150-un- What the obituaries don’t tell you noti- By Ellen Goodman The Boston Globe it both sides agreed to a “discontin- trailer park when most cities way Many lawyers thought that a lucky CBS gained its “discontinuance” only because Westmoreland was very poorly represented And by the way the suit did not last six years it lasted two and a half All this “blinking” and “caving in” by CBS has Mr Pease very worried “Suddenly” he sighs “I feel a lot less safe And I’m ashamed for my profession” That may be the one thing we agree on I’m ashamed for his profes- when a building permit for even a garage addition is made But it is a done deal and construction is well underway I realize the growth of the valley must be accommodated What I am hoping for now is that Logan City will provide for these new residents so far distanced from community services If you were to drive by this site on 1800 South you would notice that all there is for miles around is farmland and industrial development Where will the children of these families uance” with CBS leading the require notification to neighbors tests reliable evidence lb the editor: Carolyn Jones Logan In a court of law where do we draw the line? Or do we draw the line anywhere Are we lett'ng people get away with murder? These days who knows Polygraph testing is it right? UTAH SENATE To call your Utah senator at the The Constitution protects us from 5 Senate: ourselves (801) yet testifying against To write your senator at the Senpeople agree to abuse this right ate: The Honorable John Doe Utah By participating in a polygraph State Senator Room 319 State test The judge has the opportuniSalt Lake City Utah Capitol whether or not use to to choose ty 84114 this test as evidence anyway so what is the point of taking it? Senate District 24 (Box Elder Polygraph experts and other Cache counties) — John P Holmsupporters of lie detector testing gren River City PO Box believe that such tests are highly 208 Bear River City Utah 84301 accurate but in actuality poly- Home phone 9 graph tests are unreliable possiSenate District 25 (Cache Rich ble to beat and polygraphs are Summit counties) — Lyle W not lie detectors Machines like 175 E 100 North these cannot measure innocence Logan Utah 84321 Home phone or guilt All that this machine can fl 3 do is record alterations in pulse jjuginess rate perspiration and blood pres- -' sure What does this have to do with innocence or guilt? Yes it has been proven that these things occur when lying but couldn’t they be a result of a stressful situ- ' death and death decisions But Dr Lynn believes that the problem runs deeper than doctors who don’t listen “This wasn’t a group of doctors dedicated to finding the last possible date on the tombstone What we learned was that the conspiracy of silence about death was stronger than we expected and the force of habit was also stronger than we expected" On a basis neither doctors nor were patients talking about what the patients wanted They were both following the cultural script talking about the next chemotherapy the next procedure They were patching fixing going from crisis to crisis without ever asking “How can I live well while dying?” high-tec- T sion too I’m ashamed that despite the media’s past record of malice andor slovenliness he is play? There is either Logan River a small busy road or adjaso eager to judge this case without having seen any evidence (the cent farms which have dangerous “word” of “60 Minute” reporters ponds It appears they are going to is hardly evidence) That’s what’s really scary Mr Pease isn’t it a pack as many units as possible reporter’s cardinal duty to remain into this acreage to maximize the objective and unbiased? Don’t financial return which seems like you wpnder even a little bit if poor planning in terms of comthe lawyers told CBS to back off munity interest because the purported “evidence” If you are familiar with the was mostly in the minds of the fairy tale the Pied Piper you will reporters? that the children of the town were lsn led away by the Vincent Tepedino apparent deliverer It was a very high price to pay for lack Logan of foresight I am just hoping that Logan will provide responsibility not Polygraph for this new area of growth h dying and living wills and the right to die When the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded this eight-yestudy there was a consensus among cthicists and doche newspajier comes to my doorstep growing tors about how to change the way of dying If this morning bearing its daily quota of obitudoctors really were sure of the prognosis of a aries A teacher has died at 65 A costume patient if they knew what patients wanted designer at 81 A civic leader at 79 A compaand didn’t want surely there would be less ‘ ny executive at 69 pain fewer ’heroic measures” and more care The lives of these people are described as if in the hospital care of the dying the death notice were a So the study’s project called SUPPORT — resume The causes of Understand Prognoses and Preferto Study death — cancer heart for ences Outcomes and Risks of lYeatmcnts — failure are included — placed nurses in five teaching hospitals to as if disease itself were facilitate these changes But as Dr Joanne a flaw in the human of the project says “Wc Lynn a system that science has did what everyone thought would work and it fix to yet didn’t work at all not even a quiver" What is missing from Half of the patients still died in pain Huge these pages — what is gaps remained between what patients said always missing — are the descriptions of how they died Was the they wanted and what doctors did Living teacher in pain or at peace? Did the executive wills didn’t help There was too little talk too have a living will and a doctor who listened? late Too many people died alone attached to Did the civic leader linger attached to a machines machine? Was the designer’s death one she The easy villains of the story would be the designed? paternalistic doctors who remain convinced I read these pages wondering what would it they know what’s best for the patient even if be like if we listed the wav of death as well as the patient disagrees There’s enough truth in that image to make Boston University the cause of death Would that make a cncc? George Annas warn that ”if dying patients want to retain some control over their Last week something remarkable pened The newspapers in this country ran a dying process they must get out of the hospiA tal if they are in and stay out of the hospital if story about a scientific research project begun with high hopes to test they are out” A more benign interpretation is that the culways of making death in the hospital more humane was pronounced a failure DO A ture of medicine — from school to training to practice — teaches doctors to regard death The flop was on page one 20 years after as defeat Even when dealing with the Karen Ann Ruinlan lapsed into a coma It only ill talk about life and death terminally came after a whole generation of talk about decisions whenthey arc they really dealing with ar differ-rememb- er hap-town- ’s day-to-d- ay “We are all involved in the dance of silence” believes Dr Lynn Even families go through this painful process wanting one thing “to pass the mirror test They want to be able to look at themselves when it’s all over and say I was a decent person” Close up that “darency” is still defined as fighting death But when you stand back from the mirror as this study does it’s a sorry reflection Hospitals are not the only places where we die There are hospices and homes There are as well the “tender mercies” of Dr Kevorkian and the moral ambiguities of ethi-cis- ts doctor-a- suicide ssisted But the majority of Americans end their lives in hospitals As long as hospitals reject a humane role in helping people die we are failing dismally as doctors as friends as family and as fellow travelers through what the psalmist calls “the valley of the shadow of death” Lawmakers 538-103- ar UTAH HOUSE To call the Utah House of Repre9 sentatives: (801) To write a Utah representative: Logan 1190 Utah 84321 N 538-102- The Honorable John Doe State Representative State Capitol Salt Lake City Utah 84114 House District 1 (Cache Box Elder and Tooele counties) Rep Eli Anderson 8790 West Highway 102 Tremonton Utah 84337 Home phone 854-376- 0 tdclly Efltefi feltcrininttVftnt Schedule fee 1995 1700 East Logan Home phone 753-185- 0 1 House District 5 (Cache) — Evan L Olsen Ward 2009 S 3200 West Young Ward Utah 84339 Home phone 753-004- 752-26- 10 rd 1:00 become such expert liars being able to pass such tests as is predicted in the Debra Brown Trial Debra Brown a woman was accused of killing her employer Lael Brown and forging over $3700 in his checks Brown agreed to a polygraph test Though die was proven guilty of the crime she passed the test The judge handling this case refused to use her test in the decision of guilt from lack of solid evidence We ask those participating in a jury of law where a polygraph is used as evidence to reconsider WESTATES INFO 753-190- Saturday Dec 2 0 Giri ballet Girl ballet 10:00 am til 9:00 pm 10:00 - Susan Ames 1 1:00 Conceit Choir Caprice Choir and the Cadet Choir Jdl JcVilhusLeslie Timmons Ihrrctnrs 1 2:00 USU Flute Ensemble Leslie Timmons Dir 1 :00 Logan High School String Ensemble Caine Brass Ensemble - Todd Fallis Pit Cache Dance - Little Mutch Girl ballet 2:10 Cache Valley Dance Ensemble - Marion AnJrnon Ikr 1:00 - Cache Valley Contraband 5:10 - Krystal re Anderson - Smart 6:00 - Wes Mantuoth and Maya - Trio 6: 10 - Cedar Ridge Middle School Chorus Melody Anderson 7:10- - Cache Dance - Little Match Girl ballet 1:10- - 2:00 (G) 7:15-9:1- 0 No Sfwnrf f'Hjfftfminif Paste nr nbtiiNMb GOLDENEYE ACE VENTURA II rwmni - Mi nr Holly Faire presents: Saturday Dec 2 5 Adult (16 and over) and Children hsiwnfo ITTAKESTWO (PC) (5-1- 0) 7:10-9:2- 0 lit N? 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