The only thing I was certain about was that if unplugged, she should immediately be euthanized and not be subjected to starvation. To die by starvation is to exit life with a curse. Ironically, modern medicine has arrived at a place where its responsibility to life is sometimes through the door of death.
Roberta Kalechofsky is the author of eight works of fiction, four nonfiction books, a monograph on George Orwell and two vegetarian cookbooks. Her passion in fiction is the historical interface between Christians and Jews; in nonfiction it is animal rights and the food problem. She has been the recipient of a literary fellowship from the NEA and the Massachussetts Council on the Arts. For more information, see her website, www.micahbooks.com. [2009]
Featuring work by M.C. Armstrong, John W. Evans, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Becky Adnot Haynes, Nathan Hogan, Jonathan Johnson, Devin Murphy, Wade Ostrowski, and Sharon Solwitz... and an interview with Natasha Trethewey.

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