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Euthanasia Legislation: Some Non-Religious Objections, Yale Kamisar
Euthanasia Legislation: Some Non-Religious Objections, Yale Kamisar
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A book by Glanville Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law,1 once again brought to the fore the controversial topic of euthanasia, more popularly known as 'mercy-killing'. In keep_ ing with the trend of the e.uthanasia movement over the past generation, Williams concentrates his efforts for reform on the voluntary type of euthanasia, for example the cancer victim begging for death, as opposed to the involuntary variety -- that is, the case of the congenital idiot, the permanently insane, or the senile
When a legal scholar of Williams's stature joins the ranks of such formidable law thinkers as …