Article: Death, be not proud. (response to Ernest van den Haag's article on physician-assisted suicide)

DARWIN had his Huxley. Dr. Jack Kevorkian has at long last found his in the person of Professor Ernest van den Haag. In the June 12 issue of this journal, Professor van den Haag champions not only a legal right to commit suicide, but a right to demand medical assistance in doing so, praising Kevorkian as a ``rare and courageous exception'' to the refusal of most doctors to extend such ``help.'' Granted that Dr. Kevorkian at least manifests the courage of his convictions, are we ready to embrace his vision not only as an acceptable medical ethic but as the basis for a new legal entitlement that would play its part in shaping the future of American society? Van den Haag is ...

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