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Answering the tough questions
Broadcast: Midmorning,
01/02/2008, 10:06 a.m.
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Midmorning's ethics expert discusses complex dilemmas that reach beyond the grave.
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Randy Cohen:
writes the Ethicist column for the New York Times. He joins us by phone from New York.
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