Word: euthanasia
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...most masterfully is mass America: crass commercialism, media hype, and the other things that numb our minds. From his songs of 1965 "Who Are the Brain Police?", to his more recent commemoration of television "I Am the Slime," Zappa has to his credit rock's choicest statements on mass euthanasia (though admittedly, because their babies are treatin' them bad, other songwriters rarely address such topics). Zappa's critical eye looked beyond the government and Vietnam to the covert "moral faseism" of American society. While others lambast politicians and corporate honchos, he criticizes everything and everyone. Zappa has increasingly maligned...
Reiser said that because of the increasing number of technological advancements in medicine, doctors have begun "to confront dilemmas they had never faced before" in dealing with issues such as euthanasia and the maintenance of terminally ill patients on artificial respirators...
...without reservations, the right of women to end unwanted pregnancies legally and safely. Yet even advocates of abortion are concerned about the rights of those fetuses that somehow survive lateterm abortions and emerge unwanted but alive. It is Nolen's view that "the step from liberal abortion to euthanasia is a perfectly logical one." That, he argues, is a step no society can take without risking its own survival...
...Weiss, and his family through the stricken, incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed at the euthanasia center at Hadamar. A younger son, Rudi, joins Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine; he survives to depart for Palestine after the war-the rebirth of European Jewry. Parallel runs the story of Erik Dorf, a prissily murderous family man and SS officer around whom nearly all the horrific deeds...
Viewers' reactions were mixed, perhaps because of the sort of reasoning used by the Times's Michael Ratcliffe: "Suicide, euthanasia, privacy and surveillance: rarely can there have been a broadcast in which so many time bombs of universal interest were ticking away The Independent Broadcasting Authority [Britain's commercial TV watchdog] would have been irresponsible if it had prevented The Case of Yolande McShane from being shown. In the public interest...