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...What we're trying to call attention to is that our remarkable ability to prolong dying shouldn't automatically be applied," Dr. Daniel D. Federman '49, a professor of medicine and one of the authors of the article, said last night...
...guidelines set down in the article make two major points, according to Federman. First, the patient's role in the decision-making about treatment should be paramount, and second, doctors should not continue "aggressive treatment" when it would only prolong "a difficult and uncomfortable process of dying...
Lost in the ruckus was Lamm's original intent: to call attention to the alarming fact that "medical science is replacing God in deciding when we die," and to encourage discussion of the implications. "We can prolong our lives a few months or a year, but at what price?" Lamm asks. The Governor insists that he did not intend to endorse mercy killing: "In euthanasia, somebody else makes the decision. [ am merely saying people have the right :o die without medical science intervenng." In addition, he notes, the "falling leaves" metaphor was an attempt to paraphrase an article...
...order be obtained before they would comply with an 83-year-old woman's wish to be disconnected from the respirator that was keeping her alive and in pain. Nearly three years earlier, the woman had drawn up a "living will," a document that requested hospitals not to prolong her life by extraordinary measures. Because Arizona does not recognize such a will (15 states and the District of Columbia do), doctors did not want to take legal responsibility for her death...
...report correctly notes, before any serious reforms and development can take place in Central America the path towards peace must be cleared of violence from both the right and the left. Unfortunately, the contradictory measures prescribed to end the bloodshed promise only to prolong...