Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nails from piercing her wrists. "She would hate being like this," says her mother Joyce. "It took a long time to accept she wasn't getting better." If they chose, the Cruzans could slip into Nancy's room some night, disconnect her feeding tube, and face the consequences. But instead they have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to end their daughter's life...
...annually at double and triple the rate of inflation, and as new technologies promise ever higher bills for ever older patients, the questions grow about how to ration medical care. In 1987 the Oregon legislature voted to deny organ transplants under its Medicaid program and to use that money instead for prenatal care. It is only a matter of time before the issue of continuing care for patients in a vegetative state comes under similar scrutiny...
...such an argument would require setting some line above which lives are protected, below which they are not. "In the public realm we need general rules that everyone in an institutional setting will follow," says Harvard political philosopher Robert Nozick. "And any line they draw will look arbitrary." Instead the case is being argued on the grounds of liberty and privacy...
...family and friends about Nancy's wishes were not deemed sufficient reason to stop feeding her. "The state's interest," wrote the judges, "is not in quality of life . . . Were quality of life at issue, all manner of handicaps might find the state seeking to terminate their lives. Instead, the state's interest is in life; that interest is unqualified...
...wall. We should come out of our snail shells. Also, a lot of people are demoralized. They have overthrown the old system, but they see only ruins all around. Instead of rolling up their sleeves, they are waiting for help. They feel inferior. East Germans have been in an ambivalent situation for a long time. On the one hand, they were proud of having the best socialism compared with all those "untidy" Russians and Poles. They felt like students at the top of their class. They felt contempt for the rest of Eastern Europe. This was coupled with feelings...