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...Softening the Blow Charles Krauthammer's "A Doctor's Duty," on the failed attempt to separate the conjoined Bijani twins [July 21], asserted that medically assisted suicide causes us to embark on a slippery slope. How absurd! Krauthammer failed to see the big picture, in which death is simply part of life. Rusty van Druten Gauteng, South Africa...
...Doctors attempted to separate the conjoined Bijani twins to free them from lifelong attachment, and Charles Krauthammer attempted, in his criticism of physician-assisted suicide, to split similarly inseparable moral hairs. The Bijani twins, Krauthammer wrote, "were not seeking self-destruction; they were seeking liberation. And they were trying to undo a form of mutilation imposed on them by nature." If the twins were willing to die rather than continue living attached to each other, that's hardly different from people who prefer death to being trapped in a diseased or dysfunctional body. There are those who do not believe...
...Operational Ethics I never thought of those who worked to separate the Bijani twins [July 21] as anything but heroes. The medical-team members risked their peace of mind to offer those two brave women a chance at a normal life. Both twins knew what the outcome might be. But life conjoined was so intolerable they were willing to risk death to end their suffering. The saddest irony to me was seeing their two coffins. The twins were individuals at last, but only in death. Marie H. Medoro Mississauga, Canada...
...Kudos to Charles Krauthammer for supporting the decisions of the Bijani twins and their doctors. But shame on him for getting stuck in the mire of religious values and cultural biases in regard to assisted suicide. If it wasn't a sin for the Bijani sisters to look death in the face and accept its reality, why is it a sin for others? Although I believe Krauthammer is right in arguing that trying to separate the Bijani twins was not assisting suicide, I take a strong stand against his implying that assisted suicide is immoral for anyone else who suffers...
Around the world, hearts were broken when news came that the conjoined Bijani twins had died on the operating table. Having lived in tortured unity for 29 years, they traveled from their native Iran to Singapore for the surgery meant to set them free. The doctors who performed it were devastated. When you lose a patient, particularly when the patient dies at your own hand, the heartbreak mixes with unbearable guilt. The doctors are asking themselves the same question everyone else is asking: Should they have done...