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When doctors force medical treatment. When one overcomes physical handicaps.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In 1995 at the Trial Lawyers College, I met Dax Cowart. He is one of my favorite people from the college.  On the one hand, I prefer to think of Dax for himself, not for any physical handicaps. On the other hand, he has travelled extensively telling the story about being burnt all over his body in 1973, and he has transcended the hellish ordeal of feeling skinned alive during doctors' forced efforts to treat him when he refused medical treatment and insisted on dying. I share some of his story here.  In 1973, Dax and his father got caught in an explosion when they started their car, without knowing that there was a gas leak present. His father died on the way to the hospital. Dax asked the first-arriving person for a gun to end his suffering...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 15, 2009 (boomark / email).