Word: physicians
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Over the next weeks they stayed in touch, as Kevorkian helped Gary find a private home to die in. He explained that the Michigan state legislature was moving fast to ban physician-assisted suicide. Gary speeded up his planning, had a psychiatric evaluation and assembled a meeting with family members and their minister to talk through his decision. He had attended a Unitarian church growing up, but has since drifted away from faith. When I think about dying, there's a preparation I have to go through. I've always had a sense that there's an afterlife. When...
...District Judge Edward Rafeedie, who ruled that there was no direct evidence that Alvarez participated in the 1985 murder of Drug Enforcement Administration operative Enrique Camarena. Alvarez admitted being in the house where Camarena was tortured and killed, but a Mexican policeman reported to the American FBI that another physician had also been there. Mexican President Salinas hailed Alvarez's release as a "correction of an insult...
Though Islam has factions hostile to science, it has spawned quite a few of its own researchers. Mustafa Mahmoud, an Egyptian physician, is host of the TV show Science and Religion and operates an education-and-research complex built around a mosque. In Islam, properly understood, Mahmoud contends, "if a believer ignores science and knowledge, he is not a true believer." Sounding like St. Augustine, Mahmoud says that "God, the creator of the universe, can never be against learning the laws of what he has created...
...rushed to Governor John Engler's desk last week, which would temporarily ban physician-assisted suicide until a commission can make a recommendation, is aimed directly at Kevorkian. But the doctor says it makes no difference to him if Michigan's elected representatives turn him into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...
That doesn't satisfy his critics particularly. "He's more like a serial killer than a physician," says Professor George Annas of Boston University's school of medicine. There is already some evidence that Kevorkian's relentless grandstanding is raising alarms among euthanasia supporters. Last year the State of Washington debated Initiative 119, which would have allowed physician-assisted suicide. In early October the measure was heavily favored. Two weeks later, Kevorkian helped his second and third clients, both chronically but not terminally ill, to kill themselves. The ammunition he provided euthanasia opponents may well have helped defeat the measure...