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Booth Gardner (MBA ’63), the popular two-term governor of the state of Washington in the 1980s and ’90s, has embarked on his last campaign, “the biggest fight of my career,” he told the New York Times Magazine (December 2, 2007). Gardner, 71, who has Parkinson’s, wants to make it legal in his home state for people with debilitating but nonterminal diseases like his to receive, with a doctor’s assistance, drugs with which they may take their own lives.
Explained Gardner, “Why do this? I want to be involved in public life. I was looking for an issue, and this one fell in my lap. One advantage I have...is that people like me. The other is that my logic is impeccable. My life, my death, my control.”
The article noted, “Gardner does not live like a man waiting to die” as he works out regularly and prepares to climb Mt. Rainier. The awkward physical symptoms of his disease simply do “not fit with my concept of who I am,” Gardner said.
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