Unspeakable Conversations. Harriet McBryde Johnson.
by Johnson, Harriet Mcbryde; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 3Human Relations. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2003ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Bioethics | Ethicists | Euthanasia | Life (Biology) | People with disabilities | Persons | Princeton University | Quality of life | SingerDDC classification: 050 Summary: "He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering that comes with lives like mine and satisfy the reasonable preferences of parents for a different kind of child. It has nothing to do with me. I should not feel threatened." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author, Harriet McBryde Johnson, resigned to a wheelchair after suffering through "more than four decades of a muscle-wasting disease," presents her experience of speaking opposite Peter Singer, a Princeton University professor who "believes that it should be lawful under some circumstances to kill, at any age, individuals with cognitive impairments so severe that he doesn't consider them 'persons.' "| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004.
Originally Published: Unspeakable Conversations, Feb. 16, 2003; pp. 50+.
"He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering that comes with lives like mine and satisfy the reasonable preferences of parents for a different kind of child. It has nothing to do with me. I should not feel threatened." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) The author, Harriet McBryde Johnson, resigned to a wheelchair after suffering through "more than four decades of a muscle-wasting disease," presents her experience of speaking opposite Peter Singer, a Princeton University professor who "believes that it should be lawful under some circumstances to kill, at any age, individuals with cognitive impairments so severe that he doesn't consider them 'persons.' "
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