"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
In the last paragraph the writer tries to link the Vatican newspaper's statement against euthanasia to this case in Britain (link requires registration), in which a paralyzed woman won the right to have her ventilator disconnected. The Pope's comments, however, seem to support this woman's right to forgo medical intervention. This is not the same as euthanasia, which is the deliberate use of medical intervention to cause death. It is euthanasia that the Vatican condemns, not the exercise of freewill to refuse treatment.
posted by Sydney on
3/24/2002 08:56:00 AM
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