European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Who lives my have Tiwe Geu tag feb eur the document must be renewed every five following stringent rules for it does not apply to pregnant it applies Only when death is not to comatose a physician is not bound to his patients living will unless it has been signed by a patient diagnosed As terminally ill at least 14 Days its unreasonable to expect somebody who already terminally ill to file the declaration people in that condition Are often unconscious of whats says Ben a chief organizer of Lei sure world support Tor the says the doctor at the Rity clinic has declared that he wont let a patient die unless the Law requires Ita he that makes most of his neighbors living wills All people Are asking is to be left alone and let nature take its Nicholas we see too Many examples of people around Here suffering California pro4jfe Cornell Marian mends of and Bam Evand the helpless argued that Hie real target is to get rid of the people we cast too much to keep and Philip Dreisbach of Long predicted the Law would be used by doctors who have outright con tempt for patients of certain ethnic or eco nomic one of the major supporters of the legis lation was the California medical Assoc a the Bill exempts doctors from lawsuits and criminal charges if they let a patient die after making every reasonable Effort to save but Laura a san fran Cisco cancer specialist who beads the Cha committee on the right to says the Law As written has had essentially no Impact at no one knows How Many living will forms have been filled out or How Many people have been allowed to die under the but the consensus is that the number is very Small a preliminary Cha Survey shows that the average person who has signed a living will is above average in and in Good says Murray a Cha Only two of my patients have chosen to White most of them say they just dont want to think about even people with very serious illnesses Are not that anxious to sign something saying they dont want lives artificially pro its going to take some things that affect our most fundamental beliefs dont really change All that the morticians of Nasol City by Barbara Keeler written far the associated press Mason cites morticians see themselves As part of a new Breed that avoids stereotyped Black Black caskets and perpetual a poster of Farrah Fawcet majors smiles Over an embalming table the mortician forgot to take it Down before the reporter walked through the you have to make he if you youd go the three funeral Homes in the Iowa town of the River City of Meredith Wilsons music treat death for what it is a part of nobody talks about but everybody does its As common As life says Chuck of hoga Bremer Coloni Al the funeral May be but its embellishments everything used to be Silver or says Dick As he walked through a roomful of maa hued caskets at major Erickson funeral but people like while the funeral Homes still offer the traditional Blacks and silvers with White pastels Are popular Pink and Lavender some with Floral casket companies have been making colourful caskets for several years but didst push them until about live years says Steve of Palter son Jame Sellergren funeral Hogan has been using dark coloured casket linings burgundies and greens for the past 10 the Darker the the better the body he  still uses Black funeral but hoga Bremer offers Gold major Erickson Are Black is says be Mason cites funeral Homes have always used different colors so they can be says is easier to keep clean and its not As and says is it gives the feeling that death int the last thing that happens to the funeral Homes on an of Day Are cheerful the Only one butt As a funeral has background Musk piped Yew dont Bear an Organ playing How great thou he Saya with smile As the Way  three state the tone was the the other funeral Homes Are converted Hogan wants his colonial to be preserving some semblance of the old custom of having viewings in the we Tell people they rent our Home for the and they can do whatever they want Here within they can sit Here and play cards if they he pointing to a and some Hogan concedes he Doest relish the longstanding undertaker Ive had people refuse to shake my funeral directors in the past were a class by them that changing people cant picture me As a Morti says Sellergren i dont even own a dark since i started in its differ ent its much More its much better for the Guys who Are doing we dont walk around with Long says i think television and the movies gave us a stereotype you where the undertaker is wringing his hands when someone buys an expensive i think people respect us More today than they did a few years in the 20some years Ive been in the Ive never been made fun Ive never been Erickson recalls that when his fatties and Grandfather were funeral nor titans Ware Black Suh Vand style of soft sold strictly to while he concedes the dignity the serv ice demands a Little res ram As tar As flashy clothes be Doest own a morticians have Little spare time there usually on and since grandma Doest decide when Shes going to says they May work week evenings and but they spend their Leisure time doing things like All the Normal people says they Are Active in Community they play Tennis and go out to raise families we just do it at Odd says they cultivate z healthy attitude toward the grief they face nearly every to is not although a lot of people think says who has been a mortician nearly 20 you become emotionally involved with your by the same you cant become so involved that you can t do your says you get very but you dont take it Home with january 1978 the stars and stripes Page 11