Word: euthanasia
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...ridden and could not speak except for incoherent murmurings which were too painful to listen to. Had she been in any condition to express her thoughts, I fear that she would have definitely asked to be put out of her suffering--"death with dignity" is how proponents of voluntary euthanasia would perhaps have advocated her case. At that time, I would have empathized with those who advocate surgeon-assisted suicide. Even today, arguments for ending unbearable suffering do evoke a sympathetic response from me. But even as someone who has seen close-up the pain that terminally ill patients...
...their doctors and family members to end their lives. This announcement came just a week after Robert Dent, a 66 year-old cancer sufferer, became the first person to die under Australia's Northern Territory's controversial legislation--the first of its kind anywhere in the world--legalizing voluntary euthanasia. In the U.S. and elsewhere around the world, many euthanasia advocates have cheered the Northern Territory law. They hope for similar laws in the United States in light of the Supreme Court's decision to consider the issue. However, many opponents of euthanasia, such as myself, feel gravely concerned...
...opposed to euthanasia because I believe it violates the basic sanctity of all human life. I must admit that I am pro-choice, but that stance is based on the opinion that a fetus in the early stages of pregnancy is not a living human being. However sick or invalid, no one can deny that a patient is as human and that his life is as important as anyone else's. These views stem not from any particular religious belief, but out of a basic respect for human life anywhere and in any condition...
Buckley finished after 35 minutes and then took questions on such diverse topics as gun control, affirmative action, welfare, drug legislation and euthanasia...
Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...