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...Callahan is a walking cliche...
...much because I'm not very good at it," Callahan said. "I try to get it done on the field. If you're whipping people on the field, the guys will see that and that gets more 'spec' than stumbling over words...
...Callahan was first and foremost a basketball player until he got to Harvard. He played some football, but hated being placed on the line "with all the slow uncoordinated guys"--the guys who got no 'spec...
Jurists and ethicists wrestle with the wider implications of measuring the value of life on a sliding scale. Once a society agrees that at some stage a life is no longer worth sustaining, patients are suddenly vulnerable. "We would begin with competent people making their own choice," warns Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center and an authority on ethical issues in medicine, "but we would be too easily led into involuntary euthanasia -- either manipulating people into asking for suicide or actually doing it to them without their permission because they have become too burdensome or costly." The haunting precedent...
Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that...