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Newspaper Article
Assisted suicide takes center stage again
2009
Overview
The phrase \"sanctity of life\" has become the ultimate shield in any conversation about euthanasia. The words camouflage real-life situations when the sufferer's life ceases to be worth living. The phrase has a rather firm and unyielding religious underpinning and thus any intervention that hastens a person's exit is considered as playing God. Jack Kevorkian, unfairly dubbed Dr. Death by the media, brought the issue of assisted suicide center stage in this country when in 1998 he showed a videotaped suicide involving a patient with Lou Gehrig's disease on 60 Minutes. Convicted of second-degree murder, he served eight years behind bars. Kevorkian helped bring a taboo subject to the public arena that some find disconcerting. While every civilized society pays attention to the greater good of its people, individual rights and control of one's life are also cherished principles of such societies. With the assisted suicide of two prominent people, those limits are again being debated and tested.
Publisher
The Blade
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