Word: hitlers
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Wilfrid Sheed does a disservice to objectivity in discussing the celebrity of Dr. Jack Kevorkian [ESSAY, June 3]. The right-to-die movement in America today aims to end suffering at the request of the sufferer, and to compare it with Hitler's euthanasia ignores the obvious difference: "at the request of the sufferer." If the person suffering is able to think and communicate his or her wishes, that is a different scenario from the issue relating to Hitler in war. DAN CARLSON Pennsville, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...Hitler was O.K. at the beginning. He just went too far." --MARGE SCHOTT...
...advised students at the June 1939 Commencement to "neglect the tumult of the moment" would later send a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 after the evacuation at Dunkirk in May 1940 stating, "I believe the United States should take every action possible to ensure the defeat of Hitler...
...told me that he graded harshly a paper that I wrote about U.S. economic warfare against Nicaragua because I had not included a moral justification for such action. When I asked how this sabotage could be morally justified, this buffoon actually told me that because the U.S. had defeated Hitler and Stalin, America had paramount moral stature...
...poll and what the nurses meant by hastening are still being hotly questioned, the story at least brings the focus back where it belongs. Historically, euthanasia talks have always broken down over who gets to pull the trigger. Even the Germans of the 1930s drew the line when Hitler got into euthanasia. Strangers can never decide whose life is worth living, because strangers by definition don't know enough; but neither do friends, because the outside of an illness is so different from the inside. To the eye of Health, any number of conditions may seem quite hopeless: quadriplegia, blindness...