Word: euthanasia
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MOST GRATEFULY RECEIVED PROGRAMMING EUTHANASIA: tie between Holmes and Yo-Yo, Ball Four and Mr. T and Tina...
...Death with dignity" has become a recurrent phrase in the ethical deliberations of recent years. But this ethic usually is cited in the context of euthanasia, or mercy killing, as in the much-publicized case of Karen Quinlan, rather than in the context of capital crimes. Until Gilmore's request, the responsibility for determining society's role in the fulfillment of an individual's death-wish had been largely confined to doctors in sanitary hospital halls. Now jurists sitting in oak-panelled courtrooms must also contemplate the question...
...platform based on the idea that government should limit its functions to protecting life and private property, withdrawing from all social programs, business regulation, reducation, consumer protection--the list goes on and on. It also opposes nationally oriented trade unions and the Equal Rights Amendment. It equates abortion with euthanasia, and claims that the recent effor to immunize the nation against swine flu was in fact a disguised attempt to kill the elderly...
Colen is the Post's medical ethics expert and has written extensively on euthanasia and surgery. He "broke" the Karen Ann Quinlan story with a series of articles for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Since then, Karen Ann Quinlan's name has become famous, the result of some responsible reporting and a lot of sensationalism. But in Colen's book, Karen Ann Quinlan: Dying in the Age of Eternal Life, he doesn't waste time delving into Karen Quinlan's past or describing her present physical condition in gory detail. Instead, he concentrates on the difficult questions that...
...parents spent six months battling for her right to die with dignity.* Though the California bill specifically disavows "mercy killing" and allows anyone designated by the patient to rescind the death directive, California's pro-life forces strenuously opposed the measure as the first step toward euthanasia. Said one Democratic assemblyman, Vincent Thomas: "The trend seems to be to get rid of the senile, insane and crippled people. Our next move will be to get rid of everyone...