Word: euthanasias
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Many physicians also fear that making the practice legal will lead to ill-considered decisions to terminate life. Some doctors believe--though have not proved--that a 1993 Dutch decision to legalize euthanasia has resulted in some cases of mercy killing without the patient's explicit consent. Clinical depression can often be the reason behind a terminal patient's death wish; so can unremitting, intense pain. Says Dr. William Wood, clinical director of the Winship Cancer Center at Emory University in Atlanta: "If we treat their depression and we treat their pain, I've never had a patient who wanted...
...practice is now widespread (perhaps 2,000 to 3,000 cases a year; the U.S. equivalent would be 40,000 to 60,000) and abused. Indeed, legalization has resulted in so much abuse--not just psychological pressure but a shocking number of cases of out-and-out involuntary euthanasia, inconvenient and defenseless patients simply put to death without their consent--that last year the Dutch government was forced to change its euthanasia laws...
Judge Roger Miner, writing for the Second Circuit, uncomprehendingly admits the reality of the nightmare: "It seems clear that some physicians [in the Netherlands] practice nonvoluntary euthanasia, although it is not legal to do so." Well, why would such things occur in the Netherlands? Are the people there morally inferior to Americans? Are the doctors somehow crueler and more uncaring...
...religion." At the same time, however, he maintained that his philosophy is "committed to the cultivation of moral excellence," a belief which, he conceded, might bring Secular Humanists into conflict with certain other religious principles. For example, he noted that Secular Humanists are also "committed to the protection of euthanasia and reproductive freedom...
Hundreds of web- and E-zines have sprung up in recent months, covering everything from big- city nightlife (Total New York) to punk rock (Intrrr Nrrrd). FaT GiRL caters to lesbians whose girth is apolitical as well as an aesthetic choice. Snuff It purports to be a "Church of Euthanasia" publication. Its motto: "Save the Earth; Kill Yourself...