Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politically expedient to "prove" the viability of secessionist Biafra outside of a Nigerian federation. Nigerian reports of mass hunger were rejected out of hand, by pro-Biafrans, as propaganda attempts to lower the morale of those trapped in the secessionist kingdom. Now, however, the sordid truth of colossal human suffering is out. Biafra is not a viable dream without the oil rich territories of five million minorities coerced into the new citizenship...
Committee theologian Ralph Potter felt that important issues were ommitted from the Beecher committee's re-evaluation of human death. They brought it to the public hoping to stimulate discussion, according to Mendelsohn, and Potter will be among the first to comment...
That then, is what a convention is all about. Candidates, trailed by their faithful, talk to many delegates. Delegates stick together with their own states. Newsmen by the thousands scurry about squeezing juice out of dried up oranges and Republican leaders toss out more partisan crap than any thinking human being should be asked to tolerate...
...looks like the Harvard faculty committee's redefinition of death will soon become part of medical gospel. Yet this little committee which managed to over-throw a fundamental concept of human life is only one among hundreds of Harvard's intellectual kaffee klatches...
Further, he will ask how we decide between intensive care to the irreversibly ill and broad basic medical care to the many. Doctors are dedicated to the extension of human life by virtue of the binding Hippocratic oath. In the light of family feelings and the traditional Western regard for life, it is difficult to turn of the respirator, as the report recommends, just because a report redefinition of death is satisfied