Already, he notes, Oregon, through its Medicaid program, is paying for killing people, and, abroad, in the Netherlands, assisted suicide is commonplace. A Missouri reader not unnaturally turns to the index for Cruzan, Nancy. He finds that the Carterville woman s car accident and her hospital care as a comatose patient, and her parents ultimately successful court fight to have food and water tubes removed, are given only three pages. And it only took about 10 years from the beginning of the bioethics debate for people in PVS to be viewed in medicine, law, theology and among the general public . . . It was indeed a breakthrough.
Life support is removed from people who by no stretch of the imagination are vegetative.
In Florida, a court approved that for a woman who begged, Please feed me. Culture of Death is not a collection of anecdotes, though. The antipathy of relativist bioethics to religion emerged early, Smith writes. Death with dignity can be improbably droll. This customized EXIT BAG is made of clear, strong industrial plastic.