Word: euthanasias
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With all these youths in Asia despite the warnings of our State Department, one wonders if a little euthanasia might not be helpful...
Lael Tucker pleads a moral cause: a kind of private euthanasia, her husband's "right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris, a word which they thought defined their own gallant pagan defiance of fate. Each reader will have to judge the moral issue for himself; the real significance lies in the fact that, in this book, the issue is only seen in terms of responsibility to oneself and to other human...
...cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender as it is, and help the patient to live on ... The difference between euthanasia and letting the patient die by omitting life-sustaining treatment is only a moral quibble...
...Morals and Medicine," Rev. Fletcher defends such controversial processes as birth control, euthanasia, artificial insemination, and abortion, stating that man has the right to use his scientific skills to overcome nature's obstacles. Discussion of the text was barred last week in Philosophy 3 sections largely to avoid offending Radcliffe students by possible indelicate speculation...
...doctor has no right to speed a patient's end by euthanasia, or "mercy killing," no matter how hopeless his condition. But neither, declares Dr. Francis T. Hodges, 48, a general practitioner in San Francisco, has the doctor any right to prolong a "hopeless" patient's life by extraordinary feats of medicine...