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Jane St Clair
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As Wodehouse said, "I've been writing since I was five years old. What I did before, I don't remember. Just loaf, I guess."
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Jane St. Clair is the author of "Walk Me to MIdnight" from OakTara Press. She dedicated her book to hospice nurses, and after its publication, became active in the movement against assisted suicide. She now serves on the Board of Directors of Hospice Patient Alliance and writes articles for the movement.
Jane has published over fifty children’s short stories, 21 children's books, and adult fiction in literary magazines such as Clockwatch Review, Thema, QWF, Clare, Thematic Literary Magazine, and Red Rock Review. Her stories also appear in literary anthologies, including Times of Grace, Times of Sorrow published by the University of Nebraska, Firewalkers, and a 2011 anthology of sports fiction by the Main Street Rag publications. Jane is the 2007 winner of the True Life Story contest, 2006 first place winner of The Writers Network contest, American Accolades (first place), Hollywood’s Next Success, and 2005 winner in television writing for Scriptapalooza. As a free-lance writer, Jane authored two non-fiction books and hundreds of web articles. Walk Me to Midnight is her first novel.
Jane grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and worked her way through Northwestern University with a variety of odd jobs such as factory welder, beauty shop attendant, commercial sign maker, cocktail waitress and more. After earning a degree in journalism, she spent a year in the Chicago ghettos as a welfare worker. She went to New York City as a production staff member of the television program, “Sesame Street.” Later she worked at Channel 11/PBS-TV in Chicago, and as a newspaper reporter/photographer for the Louisville-Courier Journal and weekly papers in rural Indiana and Appalachian Kentucky.
Birth Place: Chicago, IL
Accomplishments: 2007 True Life Story first place
2006 American Accolades first place writing
Writers Network 2006 first place, Law and Order script
National award for teaching financial literacy
to children through a website, The Money Express.
The Money Express, has had over a million and a half "hits"
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Short Stories
 The Secret Life of Plants by Jane St Clair A young girl has anorexia nervosa --"The Secret Life of Plants" was published in Thema magazine ...
The Time We Lost Gigi by Jane St Clair In this prize winning story, a man with Elephant Man's disease falls in love with a miniature poodle. First place winner in the worldwide True Life Story Contest (see http://www.truelifestorycontest....
Mordiana and the Sorcerer's Secret by Jane St Clair A Fairy Tale Contest! You had one weekend to write a 2500-word fairy tale with a credit card in it. Some of the other 30 prompts were a drama/doll;horror/rest stop; comedy/emergency room, and ghost st...
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Articles
 I Survived Hospice! Wear that tee shirt proudly! by Jane St Clair 200,000 survive hospice every year: what if they were offered assisted suicide?
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Ten Myths About Legalizing Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair Proponents of assisted suicide argue it's needed as a legal right, patients are in dire pain, it's more dignified, etc etc. But are these myths true?
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The St. Croix Cougar Belongs to the West by Jane St Clair The St. Croix cougar in Connecticut --like the animals I have seen out West-- is adventurous, he roams without maps, he presses forward no matter how uncharted the territory. He follows his intuition...
Living Wills, End-of-Life Medical Forms and the New York Times by Jane St Clair End-of-life forms or "living wills" are not medical documents. They are legal forms that reflect your religious, philosophical and moral beliefs. Sign them with a lawyer, not a doctor....
Murder by Suicide: Internet Predator Attacks the Most Vulnerable Among Us by Jane St Clair An ex-nurse in Minnesota encourages people to commit suicide in Internet chat rooms. The Final Exit Network puts up suicide billboards to encourage suicide. Some people are ready when you need a helpi...
Grandma's Suicide Kit Backfires by Jane St Clair A 91-year-old sells suicide kits from her house, and it's a $100,000 a year business. But one person who bought a kit was a much-loved young man from Oregon, a kid from a loving home with a brilliant...
Sonoran Desert Spring, April Spring, Tucson, Arizona by Jane St Clair "The American West is the real deal. It is a spiritual space." Spring in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona is so beautiful that it proves the poets wrong. Sometimes it is enough that April comes running...
Civil War Re-Enactment at Picacho Peak: The Gettysburg of the West by Jane St Clair Picacho Peak in Arizona is where you can watch Civil War Reenactments!
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Tragedy in Our Tucson Neighborhood: Gabrielle Giffords Shot by Jane St Clair At 10 o’clock this morning, Gabrielle Giffords, our representative in Congress was holding a hand-shaking session at Safeway, our grocery store.At 10 o’clock this morning, the unspeakable happened.
To Molly with Love on National Suicide Survivors' Day by Jane St Clair November 20 is a day to remember loved ones who we lost to suicide
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Cowboys Gather for Symposium In Sonoita, Arizona by Jane St Clair Cowboys have symposiums, which is a fancy word for gathering together to share songs and stories and such, and maybe do some roping and riding. This is what the Western Heritage Cowboy Symposium in So...
The New Rx Cure: Assisted Suicide as Medical Treatment by Jane St Clair Oregon allows assisted suicide so now that state's health plan pays for assisted suicide but not chemotherapy in certain cases. Bioethicists are now recommending that patients undergoing risky operat...
Germany's New Doctor of Death - Roger Kusch by Jane St Clair German doctor Roger Kusch helps Bettina Schardt, who was not terminally ill, commit suicide. Clever lawyer that he is, he knows how to escape liability....
17 Provocative Quotes About Euthanasia from People With Disabilities by Jane St Clair Physician-assisted suicide poses a threat to disabled people and their families. Are people only dignified if they can care for themselves? Are disabled and dying people only dignified when they are d...
Assisted Suicide and Your End-of-Life Chats with Your Doctor by Jane St Clair End of life chats with doctors are about helping you choose the cheapest health care possible to save the system money.
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129 Things To Do Instead of Suicide by Jane St Clair Every hour and half, an American teen attempts suicide -- when there are so many other wonderful things to do
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A Crime Writer Looks At the Terri Schiavo Case by Jane St Clair A crime writer looks at why it's hard to make laws about killing people in vegetative states who, like Terri Schiavo, leave no written directions or Living Wills.
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17 Provocative Quotes from Doctors Against Physician-Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair The International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide featured doctors from all over the world who speak out against these laws.
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He Was A Teenage Vegetable by Jane St Clair Rom Houben was falsely diagnosed as being in a vegetative state for 23 years. This case has valuable lessons for the U.S. Senate as it drafts health care reform legislation...
Now that you woke up from your coma, do you need us to kill you? by Jane St Clair No one is a "vegetable" - new research shows people in comas and semi-conscious states are more conscious than we used to think
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My Grandma, My Dog - A Compassionate Death for Both by Jane St Clair "Let me die like a dog" say advocates of assisted suicide. What if we could ask a dog's opinion of it?
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30 Logical Reasons to Vote NO on Proposition I-1000 by Jane St Clair Thirty logical reasons against legalizing physician assisted suicide -reasons not based in religion...
Germany & Assisted Suicide: The Wrong Side of History Again by Jane St Clair Germany's new right-to-die ruling on assisted suicide makes it possible for family members to pull the plug even without living wills or written directives.
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The Ladies of the View Don't Know Jack About Kevorkian by Jane St Clair On "The View," Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, and Whoopi Goldberg talk about Jack Kevorkian. Too bad they got their facts wrong.
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Hospice Group Asks Candidates for Views on Assisted Suicide by Jane St Clair Hospice Patients Alliance, a non-profit group protecting the medical care of the terminally ill, handicapped and elderly, is asking candidates for Senate and the House of Representatives for their vie...
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| Jane St Clair
Articles against assisted suicide, stunning photography of the American West and Arizona, poetry about the desert
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Blog by Jane St Clair
Jane's blog has stunning photography of the wilderness of Arizona and poetic descriptions of the desert; also stories of tourist spots
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Book reviews by Jane St Clair
Jane reviews two books every Friday
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Hospice Patient Alliance
Jane is a member of the Board of Directors of Hospice Patient Alliance, an organization to help families of hospice patients
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| "Walk Me to Midnight" appeared in an article in a scholarly journal by Professor Jeff Koloze, please see "Death Scenes in Literature from the Nineteenth Century to Current Literature" at http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/kol/kol_25death.html.
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