Word: euthanasia
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...movement and a gifted promoter of a cause he desperately believes in -- and shockingly abets. Last week the doctor who has made his name by hastening death rather than forestalling it helped two more women kill themselves in Michigan. Lawmakers and doctors may debate the ethics of euthanasia endlessly; but while that argument unfolds, the activists have again decided to take life-and-death matters into their own hands...
...months since Kevorkian last detonated the euthanasia debate, the public's craving for information has grown. The strangest best seller in memory still hovers at the top of the charts: Final Exit, by Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, instructs people on how to die, or to kill. Last summer, Wantz said, she tried to follow the directions in the book. When she failed, she turned to Kevorkian...
Some jurisdictions are prepared to go even further. Next month Washington state will vote on an initiative that would legalize physician-assisted suicide for patients with six months or less to live. If the proposal passes, Washington would become the first state to legalize active euthanasia. No Western country has yet done so. Earlier this year, Dr. Timothy Quill of Rochester, N.Y., wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about helping a patient with acute leukemia kill herself with barbiturates. A state panel of physicians found his actions medically and legally appropriate, and a local grand jury cleared...
...self-deliverance" of the terminally ill. Author Derek Humphry contends that such assistance is common but tacit. "Part of good medicine is to help you out of this life as well as help you in," he argues. "When cure is no longer possible and the patient seeks relief through euthanasia, the help of physicians is most appropriate...
DIED. Herbert Brodkin, 77, innovative television producer who examined such subjects as Nazism (Holocaust and Skokie), euthanasia, blacklisting and abortion (episodes of The Defenders); in New York City. Brodkin charged that the networks claimed to give viewers what they want, but in failing to give them "anything good," they "have reduced the audience's level of receptivity to a bunch of monkeys asking for the same peanuts...