Word: quinlans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches the fat, fraudulent and exposed cop, Harry Quinlan, sink beneath the river garbage in the closing shots of Touch of Evil? ("He was a real man," Dietrich mutters. "What can you say about people...
...indirect answers suggest not. When taking up these works, he treats O'Hara and Quinlan like any other "types." "In Touch of Evil, I was all on the side of Charlton Heston," he says. (Heston plays the Mexican sleuth who gets the goods on Quinlan). Besides, he adds, "I'm someone who likes to look...
...Death with dignity" has become a recurrent phrase in the ethical deliberations of recent years. But this ethic usually is cited in the context of euthanasia, or mercy killing, as in the much-publicized case of Karen Quinlan, rather than in the context of capital crimes. Until Gilmore's request, the responsibility for determining society's role in the fulfillment of an individual's death-wish had been largely confined to doctors in sanitary hospital halls. Now jurists sitting in oak-panelled courtrooms must also contemplate the question...
...such hopeless cases, does the intentional disconnecting of a respirator constitute a murder? Colen says no, because the respirator is not prolonging the life of the patient, it is merely postponing an inevitable death. As simple as that. Don't talk about "quality of life" in the Quinlan situation, he says, because her life has no quality. She will never even reach the level of self-awareness of a mentally retarded child. Don't talk about million-to-one chances, because, in Colen's words, "Medicine doesn't deal with a million-to-one. It deals with what is best...
...their policies on death and the ethics of treatment. In considering the implications of that revelation--the first officially stated policy for letting people die--Colen's presentation of death is invaluable; we must each decide if medical ethics are being properly handled. But don't read Karen Ann Quinlan to find out about a comatose New Jersey woman. Colen uses Karen Quinlan, the patient, only to introduce the many unanswered medical ethics questions. He leaves Karen Quinlan, the woman, in peace...