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...course, the judges who plumbed the depths of the Constitution to find the "right" to physician-assisted suicide--a right unfindable for 200 years--deny the possibility of such a nightmare scenario. Psychological pressure on the elderly and infirm to take drugs to hasten death? Why, "there should be none," breezily decrees the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Physicians do not fulfill the role of 'killer' by prescribing drugs to hasten death any more than they do by disconnecting life-support systems," writes Judge Miner. This is pernicious nonsense. There is a great difference between, say, not resuscitating a stopped heart--allowing nature to take its course--and actively killing someone. In the first case the person is dead. In the second he only wishes to be dead. And in the case of life sustained by artificial hydration or ventilation, pulling the plug simply prevents an artificial prolongation of the dying process. Prescribing hemlock initiates...
...Sukey, I hasten to say, is nowhere near Dole's age. She has gained Kansas seniority over him by remaining in the state to sell real estate while he lives in Washington and works in the Senate. In my experience, taciturnity is not a characteristic often found in people who sell real estate, not even in down East Maine, which is the place the people spinning theories about the regional origins of Dole's speech presumably have western Kansas mixed up with...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A Senate Committee approved legislation that would hasten the Federal Drug Administration's drug approval process and allow patients quicker access to European treatments. Sponsored by Senator Nancy Kassebaum, the bill would require the FDA to approve new treatments within six months or the approval process will be passed on to private companies. Drug manufacturers could sell a drug already approved in Europe -- where the approval process is easier -- if the FDA takes longer than six month to approve the drug. TIME's Christine Gorman says this could result in a greater risk to U.S. consumers. "Under these...
DANIAL DANZER KNEW HE WAS DYING of AIDS. Of all the fears he faced, losing his mind was the worst. When his faculties started to fade, he wanted to hasten his death. But his doctor could not help; Washington State law prohibited physicians from assisting the terminally ill in committing suicide. So Danzer stopped taking his insulin. After five days of convulsions, he finally died. Says his partner, Jeff Halsey: "He might have been spared some of his greatest pain and retained some of his dignity if he and his physician had received help from a compassionate code of laws...