In April 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers, many already close to death, were forced to walk 66 miles to a Japanese prison camp with little food and almost no water; some 11,000 died along the way.
Starving prisoners were dumped into rivers alongside corpses; women were molested and raped; victims were shot, beheaded with swords, and dismembered while still alive; thousands more, spared death, were forced into concentration camps and prisons.
It is one of the law's cruelties that a healthy person can kill themselves or an irrational person can deny themselves life-saving treatment, while the terminally ill close to death are forced to linger on beyond what they can bear.
Those who weren't shot or tortured to death were forced into slave labor in the rice fields.
Only Hewitt was allowed to escort Corrie's body in the ambulance; the rest of the activists who witnessed her death were forced to hitchhike home in the desert.
The question then becomes: at what point should interventions in aging be withdrawn during the interim when physical and mental viability end and death is forced upon the body by nature?
What is not in dispute is that the shock waves created by the Princess' death are forcing the royal family to change the way it deals with public events.
We who are somewhere between 60 and death, are forcing the world to see us beyond our wrinkles, thinning hair and bum knees.
Marquee clubs on the Vegas strip are finding it unsustainable to pay big name DJs exorbitant guarantees, attendance at some of the scene's bigger festivals is down, and moralist panic around drug deaths are forcing legislators to close clubs and attempt to outlaw raves nationwide.
Before his death, Kasasbeh was forced to reveal the names and workplaces of many fellow pilots in the Royal Jordanian Air Force.
