Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...
...last year, three lost money. Faced with such harsh reality, the owners of the city's papers tried a drastic solution. Last winter two of the four dailies were summarily put to death. The survivors were left with separate morning and afternoon monopolies (TIME, Jan. 12). This double euthanasia drew cries of dismay from all over the U.S. press, and the U.S. Department of Justice threatened an investigation. But by last week it was clear that Los Angeles' drastic solution was working...
Died. Charles Francis Potter, 76, founder of the First Humanist Society of New York, a onetime Baptist minister who believed that the true savior was man instead of God. crusaded nationwide for birth control and euthanasia; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Aside from the early euthanasia, the season will be remembered most for its emphasis on public-affairs programs, which did relatively well while doing good...
...very old to the acute discomfort of a serious operation or of feeding by intravenous drip would seem to be morally wrong. Such means should be used only where there is reasonable hope of recovery or where some benefit of happiness is conferred on the patient." Out and out euthanasia, said Bishop Mortimer, is no longer "a live issue" in Britain, but doctors are certainly justified in relieving their old patients' suffering, even if this should hasten death...