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PubMed1991

American culture and euthanasia. The changing definition of a "good death".

Divisions run deep in contemporary America over the issue of assisted suicide or mercy killing. The active, directly intended, and freely chosen self-destruction that was once unspeakable has become speakable. A recent best-seller providing "how-to" information on suicide; Initiative 119 in Washington State, which would allow "aid-in-dying"; and other publications and polls indicate that the proponents of mercy killing may have won over American culture, or at least established a dominant foothold. One of the chief criticisms of policies that permit mercy killing and assisted suicide is that they inevitably encourage suicide among those who are neither terminally ill nor suffering from physical pain. American culture is extreme in its desire to eliminate suffering. In a culture that can no longer depend on religious insights into human suffering, all kinds of preemptive strikes against suffering seem inevitable. The success of proponents of euthanasia is an indirect indictment of a healthcare system that fails to provide good palliative care and support. In our curative and rescue-oriented healthcare system, management of pain is not a priority. And our society also undervalues caring in its most basic sense. It is not so much death as the absence of caring and the denial of reality that may be the enemy. The desire to control pain has always been valid, but not the desire to press control so far as to directly cause death itself. Death by lethal injection is best understood as a tyranny of technological control.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed1990

A Dutch treat.

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Adolescent↗
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Initiative 119 and Kevorkian: beaten but not dead.

Two events--the close defeat of Washington State's Initiative 119 and the disclosure that Jack Kevorkian, M.D., had provided two more women with the means to die--are promoting a great deal of nationwide soul-searching and reflection over the ties between and the reasons behind these events. The following articles summarize some of the predominant explanations.

Ethics, Medical↗
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Washington's I-119.

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Euthanasia↗