Past Contest Entries

(tie) A Life Lived Her Way To The End

Reporter Tim Christie wrote about the life and death of a terminally ill woman named Lucille Adamson, who ended her life under the auspices of Oregon’s one-of-a-kind doctor-assisted suicide law. She agreed to let Christie attend her death, providing a rare first-hand report on what happens when someone take a lethal dose of barbiturates to hasten death.

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Place:

Third Place

Year:

  • 2005

Category:

  • 000 circ.)
  • |
  • Small Newspapers (under 90

Affiliation:

The (Eugene, Ore.) Register Guard

Reporter:

Tim Christie

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