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We’ve Underestimated the Social Lives of Giraffes

Giraffes seem to stand above everything. Like two-story ascetics, they float over the savannah and peer out at the turmoil behind their long eyelashes. For decades, many biologists thought that giraffes extended this treatment to their…

When Sufferers Select to Finish Their Lives

Ms. Rehm said her goal is that no patient should suffer the outrage that her husband experienced at the end of his life. She described his death as "excruciating to bear testimony," although the lack of food and water is usually quite…