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Though some right-to-die advocates called him "a brave pioneer," doctors , and ethicists challenged Kevorkian on both moral and procedural grounds. Even groups that sponsor "death with dignity" legislation are careful to include safeguards to prevent the laws from being abused. Most require that patients make a witnessed, legal request in writing, with two independent doctors confirming that the patient's condition is unbearable and irreversible. Says Susan M. Wolf of the Hastings Center: "Even the staunchest proponents of physician-assisted suicide should be horrified at this case because there were no procedural protections...
Doctors reflecting on the case note that Alzheimer's is difficult to diagnose. One symptom is sufficient mental deterioration to impair the ability to make decisions. "He has to claim she made her decision competently," observes Dr. Joanne Lynn, professor at George Washington University. "But the diagnosis of Alzheimer's is almost incompatible with that claim...
...still reject Kevorkian's solution, fearing the damage that would be done if doctors routinely acted as executioners. "The doctor-patient relationship is based on mutual trust," notes Dr. Nancy Dickey, a trustee of the American Medical Association. "Our patients should not be concerned that we are going to make a value judgment that their lives are no longer worth living...
...tabloid headlines of popular perception, Beatty may be typecast as the roguish movie actor, or the legendary roue, or Shirley MacLaine's current brother, or the man who persuaded Gary Hart to make one last humiliating run for the presidency. But he is also, over the past quarter-century, the movies' most distinctive producer-star, with Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait and Reds to his credit (and Ishtar to his debit). As the only person to have been nominated for Oscars in four different categories on two separate occasions -- for acting in, and producing, writing and directing Reds...
...dacha. It turned out that the receivers and tape recorders had been installed in the little gatehouse. The equipment was mediocre, and the eavesdropping was quite careless. The guards sometimes substituted music tapes for the blank recording tapes to while away the long evenings. When they did, we could make out the faint melodies through the walls of Father's room; the microphones had become speakers. A couple of times, on hearing the music, I pretended to be surprised and proposed searching for the source. A moment later, the music would stop...