Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reichel said if euthanasia were legalized, "Many, including Alzheimer patients and AIDS victims, might be judged unworthy of living." He added tht others might think society no longer needed them...
Allowing a patient to die is morally acceptable, but euthanasia is not, a visting scholar at Harvard's Divinity School told 20 people in the Science Center last night...
...speech entitled "The Moral Dangers of Euthanasia," William Reichel, a professor of community and family medicine at Georgetown University, described the ethical difference between discontinuing treatment that prolongs a patient's life and forcibly ending it by lethal injection or other means...
Another problem with euthanasia, Reichel said, was its bad effect on the doctor-patient relationship...
Reichel also said he thought religious arguments against euthanasia were sound, and commandments such as "Thou shall not kill," which appear in every major religion, show that life is fundamentally sacred...