Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: the nightmare of a botched attempt to end it." So Arthur Koestler wrote in his 1981 preface to A Guide to Self-Deliverance, a suicide manual distributed to the 8,000 members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia...
...father-in-law suggests that he join the Nazi Party, so he does. An old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the SS elite corps, so he does. The uniform thrills him, as does a written plaudit from the Führer on his pro-euthanasia novel: "The surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolfs shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...
...president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) argued that legislation for abortion "on demand" will "lead to euthanasia" for aged and handicapped people during a debate with the executive director of a National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) last night in Emerson Hall...
Moreau justifies publication on the grounds that the right to commit suicide is inalienable and that the book only furnishes the "means to execute" it. That's an argument shunned by even most euthanasia societies, several of which quietly produce and selectively distribute similar booklets. The two authors, Claude Gillon and Yves le Bonnied, are more sensible. They refuse all interviews. They know, after all, that they can legally get away with printing the book; France has no laws against aiding suicide. Legally, the authors are sitting pretty, and it will undoubtedly take time for even the most passionately angry...
Taylor takes the tack that Haider is a victim of flattery, subtle intimidation and an inordinate love of the uniform. Out of the emotional stress accompanying his mother's senile dementia, Haider has written a pro-euthanasia novel. It conies to the Fuhrer's attention, and Haider admits to "the surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolf s shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...