Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uproar is just what the Governor got. In Washington the American Life Lobby, an antiabortion, anti-euthanasia group, quickly called for Lamm's resignation. Florida's Representative Claude Pepper, 83, Congress's leading advocate for the aged, accused the Governor of "downgrading the elderly." Lamm was confronted by angry older citizens in Denver. "I used to think the world of you, but I hate you for what you said," declared Lilian Bono...
...MOST arguments about euthanasia have pointed out, there is a grave difference between "passive" and "active" euthanasia. In the one case, a doctor may simply choose not to revive a terminally-ill patient whose heart has stopped, "letting nature take its course." In the other, a doctor actually may administer a lethal drug to put an end to a patient's suffering...
...there is general agreement that it is morally permissible to allow a person to die if therapy would not lead to recovery. Views diverge, however, when this principle is applied to specific situations. The Roman Catholic Church has the most explicit position. The Vatican's 1980 declaration on euthanasia clearly permits an end to treatment that would only "secure a precarious and burdensome prolongation of life" when death is imminent. Says Rabbi Seymour Siegel of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary: "It is the individual's duty to live as long...
...growing number of proponents of "self-deliverance," the Koestlers' suicides seemed to epitomize the "gentle, easy" death celebrated by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and 18 similar groups that have sprung up in Europe, Asia, Australia and the U.S. Still, the sensational case raised some disturbing ethical questions about suicide pacts in particular and, more generally, about the fast-growing movement that aims to facilitate the suicide of the terminally...
...Koestler have a moral obligation to dissuade his apparently healthy wife from ending her life? Are organizations like the Voluntary Euthanasia Society encouraging suicide by presenting the act as dignified, respectable, even attractive? Koestler's effusion in the how-to book for which he wrote the preface was characteristic of the movement's publications: "The prospect of falling peacefully, blissfully asleep is not only soothing but can make it positively desirable to quit this pain-racked mortal frame...