Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dawson, who died in 1945, wrote that he acted on the wishes of the King's wife Queen Mary and his son the future Edward VIII, who abdicated eleven months later. Nonetheless, the story caused an uproar in Britain, where euthanasia is illegal. Kenneth Rose, George V's official biographer, accused Dawson of "murdering" the King, who was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace, which learned of the mercy killing from Watson on the eve of the publication of the notes, said only, "The events happened a long time ago, and all the main participants...
...reviews the influence of surrealists and dadaists without missing the historical joke: "They all wanted to destroy culture . . . and now they're part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry out a joint suicide pact at their London residence...
Some raised concerns about the so-called slippery slope toward wholesale euthanasia. Said Dr. Mark Siegler, director of the Center of Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago: "We start off with dispatching the terminally ill and the hopelessly comatose, and then perhaps our guidelines might be extended to the severely senile, the very old and decrepit and maybe even young, profoundly retarded children." Adding to such worries is the current era of medical cost cutting. "That's what this is all about, to get rid of people who are a burden to their families and the state," warned...
...religion and the right to privacy, that it would be cruel and unusual punishment to keep her alive "after the dignity, beauty, promise and meaning of earthly life have vanished." A court-appointed guardian for Karen countered that the parents had no right to propose what amounted to euthanasia. The doctors' lawyer claimed that no court could determine whether or not Karen might yet recover. The state attorney general also felt obliged to intervene and sided with the doctors...
...taxes from their federal returns. To the outrage of politicians from high-tax states, this break would be wiped out by the Reagan plan, thus saving the Treasury $22 billion a year. By delivering "a really crushing blow" to New Yorkers, charges Governor Mario Cuomo, Reagan is attempting "governmental euthanasia...