Mr Pratt, in the old people's home, with an empty pocket

Article Abstract:

The boardgame Cluedo is the second-most popular boardgame in the world, but its inventor, Anthony Pratt, died in obscurity. He never became rich from the game, and lost contact with Waddington's, which commercialized his invention. He received royalties from Waddington's for some years after the game was launched, but these dried up when the patent expired. He was rather bitter about this, but did not allow the fact that he had not really made much money from the game to dominate his life.

Innovations, History, Board games, Pratt, Anthony

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Dr Death asks some painful questions

Article Abstract:

It is unpleasant to have to constantly break the law, according to Dr Philip Nitschke, who admits to having helped a number of terminally ill people to die. He dislikes feeling like a criminal, and regrets the fact that euthanasia was only legal for a short time in Australia's Northern Territory. He believes that the law on euthanasia is extremely hypocritical, and fears that difficulties associated with making euthanasia legal will lead to the development of a 'suicide pill.'

Column, Nitschke, Philip

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Death's advocate

Article Abstract:

Euthanasia is one of the most significant civil rights issues of the 1990s, according to Geoffrey Fieger, lawyer of US pro-euthanasia campaigner Jack Kevorkian. He believes that Kevorkian is standing up for the rights of everybody, and that nobody has the right to tell somebody else how much suffering they must endure when they die. Fieger has defended Kevorkian in a considerable number of cases where somebody has been helped to die.

Influence, Kevorkian, Jack, Fieger, Geoffrey

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