Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Would you object to legalized euthanasia ("mercy killing") on religious grounds...
...Would you object to legalized euthanasia ("mercy killings") on religous grounds...
...London, England, the Rev. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, past president of Britain's Methodist Conference, came out in favor of legalizing mercy killing. General Practitioner Dr. Maurice L. Millard, 58, whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give...
What is worse is having the same symptoms as talent, the pain, the ugly swellings, the lot--but never knowing whether the diagnosis is correct. Do you think there may be some kind of euthanasia for that? Could you kill it by burying yourself here--for good? ...Would the warm, generous, honest-to-goodness animal lying at your side every night, with its honest-to-goodness love--would it make you forget...
...ends. Some secrets, he said, "can absolutely not be unveiled, even to one prudent person." The Pope also condemned the use of lie detectors. Explained a Vatican official: "The lie detector is always illicit, even with the consent of the subject. Just as a man may not consent to euthanasia because religious law forbids him from doing away with himself, so he may not destroy his own freedom to answer or not according to his own judgment. Those who ask for a lie-detector test in order to prove they are speaking the truth must find other means of convincing...