![]() ![]() Deterioration, moreover, is insidious, and the lines shift or become indistinct. But these are present sentiments, and future ones are not predictable. ![]() And, “I don’t want to leave my family with the image of deterioration” which sounds like the speaker’s fear of deterioration. “I want to die with dignity,” the euthanasiast says. No doubt the moon landing kept many people alive and I might even derive another few years myself from further shortcuts, such as Cambodia and Laos, to the end of the war. His friends, knowing his state of awareness, expected a quick surrender, since he obviously could have given up the ghost, and was in the first place, or so it seemed, possessed by a “death wish.”īut was he? Is he now? And can we ever know very much about the life incentives of people in his condition? The American Sociological Association reports that deaths decrease in the month before a birthday and increase in the month after it, and people appear to postpone their deaths until after an election, or other event of general, even if possibly quite trivial, interest. ![]() A friend of mine, a lifelong proponent of “voluntary death,” was stricken some years ago by paralysis which, however, apart from some speech impairment, did not cripple his faculties. The rub is that we also lose control of that belief. Surely many or most of us believe that when we lose control, it would be better not to come in from, but rather, like Eskimos, to go out into the cold. I hope, too, that they are merely passing the hat around, and that the contribution they want is not me. I.S.: First of all, I noticed on their appeals that the two leading promoter organizations share the same building as The New York Review which, I hope, affords you a little cold comfort now and then. NYR: What are your thoughts about the new euthanasia movement, Mr. Thou thalt not kill but need’st not strive ![]()
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