When Is Now? Euthanasia And Morality
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When is Now? Euthanasia and Morality
"The third night that I roomed with Jack in our tiny double room, in
the solid-tumor ward of the cancer clinic of the National Institute of
Health in Maryland, a terrible thought occurred to me. Jack had a melanoma
in his belly, a malignant solid tumor tha ....
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.... was obvious:
the pound, and the chloroform. No human being with a spark of pity could
let a living thing suffer so, to no good end." (James Rachel's The
Morality of Euthanasia)
The experience of Stewart Alsop, a respected journalist, who died in
1975 of a rare form of cancer gave an example on the morality of euthanasia.
Before he died, he wrote movingly of his experiences with another terminal
patient. Although he had not thought much about euthanasia before, he came
to approve ....
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