Word: euthanasia
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...prosecutor Gérald Lesigne began detailing the allegations this month, France debated the fine line between letting someone die and killing him. This time, the man in the middle is Humbert's doctor, Frédéric Chaussoy. A majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases, according to polls. Almost everyone wants to wipe away the legal ambiguity that haunts doctors now. But no one is quite sure how. The day he died, Humbert predicted in his book, would be like the day a flower blossom finally opens its petals...
...DIED. WANG MINGCHENG, 49, defendant in China's first known euthanasia case, who was acquitted of murder charges after he convinced a doctor to give his dying mother a lethal injection in 1986; in Shaanxi province. Wang, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000, also sought euthanasia for himself, but his hospital denied his request...
...Clearly upset by the incident, the doctor told me she had little choice in the matter. China's one-child policy encourages families to raise the best little emperors they can; doctor-aided euthanasia is not uncommon when children are born with birth defects. Infanticide is just one of the many ethical compromises forced upon China's doctors by an authoritarian government. Obstetricians under orders from bureaucrats perform late-term abortions, and psychiatrists commit sane political dissidents to mental institutions. In March and April, hundreds of doctors knew that Party officials were risking lives by denying the scope...
...baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect a child's normal development, she should abandon" her protests and allow euthanasia. If that doesn't work, the authors say, "let the family-planning office decide." Of course, that office ordered the abortion in the first place...
...witnessed live open heart surgery, attend a mock debate on euthanasia, and interacted with AIDS patients. She says the experience made her want to practice “pediatrics, obstetrics, anything with families...