Word: euthanasias
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TRIALS The Obsessed The minute details of dying filled the notebooks of the court stenographers. In Manchester, N.H., in the county court, there was no argument over whether "mercy" killing was or was not justified; the moral issue of euthanasia had been taken out of the case. The argument last week was whether life had not already left the wasted body of 59-year-old Abbie Borroto when Dr. Hermann Sander injected air into her veins. The defense argued that life had previously fled, that Sander therefore could not be charged with her death. The prosecution contended that her pathetic...
With the nation's interest in the rights & wrongs of "mercy killing" quickened by the trial of Dr. Hermann Sander (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), a doctor in Cambridge, Mass, last week offered, in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, some purely professional objections to legalized euthanasia...
...Soon the indications for euthanasia would be broadened to include all cases which fell in the group of 'unbeatable' diseases. Children unable to see, speak or hear would eventually be included. I would rather help to support, even at great sacrifice, a thousand invalids than be partner in the demise of one Helen Keller...
...fund has no relation to euthanasia or any of the other issues or the outcome of the trial," Woodbury said. "He helped me when I was in trouble, and I want to help...
...Tied down in one spot for a year by Asiak's mother, who was too old to travel and whose teeth, "used down to the gums, were incapable of softening hides any longer," Ernenek and Asiak unhesitatingly decided to follow their tribe's time-honored custom of euthanasia; they took her for a one-way ride, left her out on the frozen...