Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...elsewhere, well outside the realm of patient care. The spread of AIDS, for instance, has prompted some right-to-die activists to offer support and counseling about pills and occasionally lethal injections to people with the virus. Pierre Ludington, 44, executive director of the American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, has tested HIV-positive: he is stockpiling pills to use when he is ready to go. "I get angry that society wants me to suffer in a hospital," he says. "All I'm doing is feeding its coffers...
...hundreds of thousands of supporters nationwide. And as on the abortion issue, their stance against mercy killing is based on a theology that places the entire debate in a different context, that of a family of faith that tends most lovingly to its weakest members. The sanctity of a human existence, they argue, does not depend on its quality or its cost. What God gives only he can take away, and to usurp that right is an act of grave hubris. "Our Lord healed the sick, raised Lazarus from the dead, gave back sanity to the deranged," writes Muggeridge...
...This is a proposition that the Roman Catholic Church appears to endorse. While both suicide and mercy killing are still strictly forbidden, the Vatican in 1980 declared that refusing treatment "is not equivalent to suicide; on the contrary, it should be considered as an acceptance of the human condition . . . or a desire not to impose excessive expenses on the family or community...
...years we had dissidents, just like in Poland and Russia. Then, in the early '80s we began to live. There were individualistic and bohemian groups of all stripes: hippies, Maoists, anarchists, human rights groups, lesbians, gays. It was a very colorful mix. And somewhat deterring. My wife Eva and I felt like white crows in that crowd. Though they were all very friendly to us, they even attacked the church, which gave them shelter. There were a lot of fights, informers, subversion. They could not possibly become a real political force. What they did was very brave, but it couldn...
...power," says Kroc admiringly. "That is just the way the men used to do it when the old boys controlled the city," says a friend of Copley and Kroc, Del Mar marketing executive Sonny Sturn. "But the men would do it for a factory. The women do it for human services...