Word: euthanasia
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...These days in the Netherlands and across much of Europe, divisions over euthanasia have largely healed. Polls in the U.K. and France show up to 80% support for legal changes that would allow patients enduring extreme suffering from a terminal illness to request medical assistance to shorten their lives. "The consensus in the Netherlands is that we don't prolong life just because we technically can," explains Johan Legemaate, legal adviser to the Royal Dutch Medical Association. "When a treatment does not improve the patient's situation, a doctor is obliged to stop...
...Dead Yet, an organization of persons with disabilities who oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, maintains that the starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo will put the lives of thousands of severely disabled children and adults at risk. (The organization takes its name from the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a plague victim not dying fast enough is hit over the head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early...
This case is not just about euthanasia or legalized murder, however. It also centers on why Michael Schiavo refuses to transfer care to Terri Schiavo’s family. Terri’s parents are desperately trying to provide her with the medical and personal attention she needs and deserves, but that her husband and the courts have denied. Michael Schiavo called for her death long before any doctor suggested she could be in a PVS, yet her parents have demonstrated that they only want a safe home and rehabilitation therapy for their daughter. Terri Schiavo stands to benefit from...
...more than just Terri Schiavo. This is a critical issue for people in this position, and it is also a critical issue to fight that fight for life, whether it be euthanasia or abortion. I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, one thing God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what's going on in America. That Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks. I mean, in America that's going to happen...
...IMAGINE THAT IT WOULD BECOME "CONTROVERSIAL"? I didn't really know. I was very surprised that it was out as long as it was before people started even publicly discussing the ending [SPOILER ALERT: in which a character who is paralyzed seeks euthanasia...