Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.
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The Future of Decisions
If humans can’t decide, “the future of life will be decided at random.”
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Ethics on the World’s Highest Peak
The climber’s code of ethics, issued by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, specifies “helping someone in trouble has absolute priority over reaching goals we set for ourselves in the mountain.” Most take this to heart. “Saving one life is more important than summiting Everest 100 times,” says Serap Jangbu Sherpa, the first person to climb all […]