And one argues that we haven't created a culture of death in America? Here from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:Of the 200 applications for death, Dr. Lawrence Egbert approved them all.
As medical director and co-founder of the Georgia-based Final Exit Network, Egbert in the past four years approved the applications of people who wanted to die because they were diagnosed with terminal cancer.
He approved the applications of people who wanted to die because their bodies were wasting away with ALS or multiple sclerosis.
He approved the applications of people who had not been diagnosed as terminally ill but whose quality of life, in their mind, was no longer worth living...
Egbert said he doesn’t feel guilty for “hastening” the deaths of about 200 people.
“The only times I have felt guilty as a doctor is if my patient dies during anesthesia, when I was an anesthesiologist during surgeries,” he said.
Since his arrest in Baltimore and two days spent in jail, Egbert said he’s getting “nothing but applause” from colleagues at Johns Hopkins and the Unitarian Church in Baltimore he said he attends —- where, last Sunday, “I got the first standing ovation in the church’s history.”...
