Word: die
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Suddenly doctors are talking about little else. In a decision that took legal scholars and medical ethicists by surprise last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a New York State law that prohibited physicians from helping their patients die. It's already legal for doctors to withhold or withdraw treatment at a patient's request. Now, as long as a patient is in the final stages of a terminal disease, mentally competent and able to take a lethal dose of medicine on his or her own, the state can't bar a doctor from prescribing that dose...
...means the law is finally catching up to what some physicians have been quietly doing all along. In a survey of Oregon doctors published in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier this year, 60% said they should be able to help some terminal patients die, and 7% admitted to having done so. The actual number, say ethicists, may be much higher...
...opposed to faith, they argued, was the true source of salvation. For many Gnostic Christians, Jesus only appeared to be man, for the God of this world is the master of matter, and Jesus could not defile himself by actually materializing. Indeed, he was spirit and only seemed to die. Gnostic texts have Christ appearing to Peter as the Crucifixion is taking place, joyfully transcending all this world could hurl at him. The Resurrection becomes moot...
...Eyewitness to Jesus (Doubleday; 206 pages; $23.95), written with Matthew d'Ancona, a deputy editor and political columnist at London's Sunday Telegraph. As evidence of the fragments' early origins, Thiede notes that the handwriting on the Magdalen Papyrus is in a style known as uncial, which began to die out in the middle of the 1st century. A second clue to the manuscript's origins is its format. The three fragments are from a codex, a primitive kind of book in which writing is found on both sides of the papyrus. (On a scroll, by contrast, only one side...
...most important intellectual concepts in our society is the marketplace of ideas. Built on a foundation of governmentally-protected expression, the marketplace concept implies that individuals and institutions will freely introduce ideas into the public forum. These ideas will then be debated, bandied about and finally live or die based on their merit. This raises the moral question: To what extent must civic-minded citizens facilitate the spread of ideas they disagree with in order to maintain an honest discourse...