Former Washington governor Booth Gardner has Parkinson's. He's been using his leftover political capital to campaign for a "Death with Dignity" initiative, to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Washington state. And it's been working. Even the New York Times took note of Gardner's labors. But P-I columnist Joel Connelly disagrees with Gardner's stance. To Connelly or his headline writer, it's a "last selfish act." So, "for balance," Connelly says, he retails the story of Chris Carlson:Chris......

Booth Gardner, governor of Washington from 1985-1993, is the cover boy of New York Times Magazine this week. You may already know that he's suffering from Parkinson's disease, you may already know that he's campaigning to legalize physician-assisted suicide. But there's more, Daniel Bergner tells us:Only his current cause keeps [Gardner] much interested in living — this and one other goal: to connect with his son, Doug, whose growing up Gardner missed as he took......