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award-winning Concerm documentary,\"Dax's Case,\"has been chosen to inaugu-rate the tenth season of a highly regardedfilm series on WNET-TV,the PBS stationserving the New York metropolitan area.  \nIndependent Focus,a 13-week series ofhour-long programs,will show thirty inde-pendently produced films and videosselected by a panel of film producers fromover 450 submissions nationwide.  \n\"Dax's Case,\"the story of burn victimDax Cowart's struggle to resist unwantedand painful treatment and his continuingefforts to support the concept of patients'rights,is one of the few films ever unani-mously selected by an Independent Focuspanel.  \nAccording to Faith Kiermaier,coordinat-ng producer for the series,the judges wereparticularly struck by the documentary'sunusual approach to individual rights andby the timeliness of the issues raised bymedical technology.  \n(The film,which has already been recog-nized as a \"classic\"in courses in medicalethics for health-care,law and social workstudents,continues to be available from  \n(continued on page 2)  \n## Landmark NY Decision\n\nOn June 1,just as this Newsletter wasgoing to press,the New York Court ofAppeals set a precedent for that state byoverturning a lower court ruling that theartificial feeding of irreversibly comatose33-year-old Daniel Delio could not beterminated.The appellate decision is thefirst at that level in New York to affirmthe right to have such feeding discon-tinued.  \nA full account of the decision will beprinted in“Action in the Courts”in thenext Newsletter,when court documentswill be available.Those seeking detailsor explanations in the meantime shouldcontact Giles R.Scofield Ⅲ,newlyappointed staff attorney for Concem,al(212)246-6962.  \n## Dying Man Shares Experience with Collab\n\nAt Seabrook Conference,participants divided into small groups for intense discussion of challenges ofaddressing the psychological needs of the dying and their families.Photo by P.B.Weingarten  \n\"The toughest part,\"said the dying man,“is that just as soon as you learn to adjustto one kind of loss,you wake up and dis-cover that you've lost something else.\"Thesuccessful businessman and natural athletewas talking about the gradual,unpredicta-ble physical deterioration he experiencesdaily as a victim of amyotrophic lateralsclerosis,or Lou Gehrig's disease.  \nThe weekend,designed for practitionerswith experience in their fields,was anextraordinary opportunity for working pro-fessionals to discuss varying approaches toan actual case.The couple told their story,then accepted questions from the Collabparticipants.A portrait emerged of astrong,loving and successful family thathad worked hard fora very different future;  \n\"For me,\"said his wife,\"the hardestpart has been that my friends have backedaway.That hurts.I can understand thatthey aren't comfortable with this,and theydon't want to be in the way,but it stillhurts.”  \nSee p.5 for information about the upcomingsessions of The Collaboration:A Multi-Disciplinary Program for Professionals inDeath,Dying and Decisionmaking.      \nStraightforwardly,generously,thisremarkable couple shared their experiencesof coming to terms with the emotional,spiritual,physical and financial problemsof terminal illnessThe setting was theSeabrook Island Conference Center nearCharleston,SC,where March 6 through 9the Concern-sponsored Collaboration heldits first session focused entirely on thepsychological care of terminlly ill patientsand their families.  \nfor example,the husband and wife hadbeen planning to take a trip around theworld.With their three sons,they had ledactive outdoor lives,and both taughtclasses in their Sunday School.  \nAs they talked,it became clear that theparticular skills of their trusted familyphysician,their own religious faith and thepatient's lifelong belief that one should facea problem squarely and then move on to  \nNY Advocate GreenbaumHonored by Nassau Bar  \nBeatrice W.Greenbaum,a Concern 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