Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HOURS: RETURN TO CRACK STREET (CBS, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. EDT). CBS's often ! absorbing, occasionally overheated series of slice-of-life snapshots launches its new season by revisiting the drug scene it first surveyed three years...
Last week McAfee got his wish. Superior Court Judge Edward Johnson of Fulton County, Ga., ruled that McAfee's right to refuse life-sustaining treatment outweighed the state's interest in preserving life. "The ventilator to which he is attached is not prolonging his life; it is prolonging his death," said Johnson. With the court's authorization, McAfee plans to move from a nursing home to a friend's apartment and end his life by using a mouth-activated timer to shut off the ventilator after medical personnel have sedated...
...professor of medical ethics at Emory University, notes that hospitals have no clear mandate for "treatment discontinuance," and the role of doctors and nurses in these affairs remains murky. However, adds Banja, "this is a clear- cut case of a rational adult. The decision lets McAfee decide if his life is meaningful...
...McAfee case comes at a time when the right-to-die issue is taking on new urgency in the U.S. Most such cases, unlike McAfee's, involve comatose patients whose families are seeking to withdraw life-support systems. This fall the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on such a situation for the first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family...
Many may scorn these confessions as evidence of immaturity, unreliability and even moral laxity. But we are all the product of our life experiences, and I, like so many of my peers, cannot entirely abandon this Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds heritage. Normally I only share these slightly outre sentiments with close friends. But such views have become a public issue with drug czar William Bennett's attacks on my generation's self-indulgence, coupled with George Bush's prime-time address to the nation on drugs. For in identifying those responsible for the cocaine crisis, the President pointedly...