Word: euthanasia
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Secondly, the bill's understated purpose--to override Oregon's 1994 Death With Dignity Act--is an inappropriate infringement on a state's right to choose whether or not to legalize euthanasia. In 1997 the Supreme Court unanimously decided that, while it was constitutional to ban euthanasia, it was not unconstitutional for a state to pass a law making euthanasia legal. The onus of deciding the issue is on the states, not the federal government...
...willingness to take risks was also impressive, Kitchens added. In addition to expanding Princeton's student body, Shapiro ended a longtime Princeton tradition--the Nude Olympics--and was responsible for one of the most controversial faculty hires ever, bioethicist Peter Singer. Critics take issue with Singer's views on euthanasia...
...EUTHANASIA...
Physical comedy was the order of the day in Loot, and particularly rib-tickling was Fay's confession to the murder of Mrs. McLeavy, with melodrama and cheesy music in full gear, and the sorrowful admission that "Euthanasia was against my religion. So I murdered her." Of course, Orton himself objected to the use of any camp in the original productions of his plays, but in modern times, when Orton's once unprecedented criticisms of societal values are no longer so, well, unprecedented, the actors need the energy of camp to let them rip into his lines. So while...
...this is gradually what happens as Halder finds himself first trying to rationalize euthanasia as a compassionate act toward the sick and deformed, then the bonfire of the books, Krystal Nacht, and in what proves to be the play's most shocking (if somewhat farfetched) moment, Auschwitz. As Halder's rationalizations become increasingly strained and desperate, Hitler assumes a more seductive tone in Halder's mind, and his image is accompanied by popular, catchy drinking songs...