Word: humanistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week another call for death with dignity-one certain to provoke a sharp ethical debate-appeared in the new issue of the bimonthly journal The Humanist. Entitled "A Plea for Beneficent Euthanasia," it bears such diverse signatures as those of French Biologist Jacques Monod, Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and CORE Founder James Farmer. The document recommends not only the "passive" euthanasia now widely advocated, but "active" euthanasia as well: direct action to speed the death of a dying patient-an act that is technically murder. (No country has yet legalized euthanasia, though in some nations a compassionate motive...
...recognized the ridiculous results of technological processes capable of prolonging life past usefulness: "To sacrifice human dignity at the time of death or to make the process of dying a burden upon the living is not in the highest tradition of medicine, nor is it justified in the humanist tradition." Basically, this is the argument employed by Marya Mannes in her case for euthanasia. Last Rights is, however, a slick, documentary-like series of sketches, each one muttering, never crying out, in favor of euthanasia. She recalls, in lurid detail, visits to old-age homes and intensive care units...
...achievement lies precisely here. Applying a humanist's moral and critical standards across the board. Stott breaks through the usual boundaries of literary and artistic studies. He insists on judging the work of journalists, the popular media and the rhetoric of politicians by standards that are normally reserved for more respectable cultural performances...
...fail to see why the fate of the Administration should be in part decided by first Cox's and now Jaworski's wolf pack of bright young things out of that New York "humanist" school [Dec. 3]. They are the type that wants to give us abolition of the death penalty, gun control (job insurance for the working street goon), mass busing (so your kids and mine can get mugged for sociology's sake) and all the other claptrap we rejected in the last national election...
Bryan Patterson, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, yesterday praised Romer as a scientist and humanist. "He was a man at home in every area of his subject," Patterson said. "People of his breadth are becoming rare. Yet he always approached his material with the idea foremost in his mind that he was dealing with the remaans of what were once human beings...