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Friday, April 4, 1977
University Daily Kausan
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Euthanasia justified . . .
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"SOME PATIENTS HAVE had every conceivable treatment with potential value for them," Stephens said, "and when an expert or experts decide that the ultimate treatment has been administered, then it will be extremely weak, extremely weak, death could be a friend."
Another case in which death might be preferable to life, he said, is when the patient is a quadriplicic (paralyzed in all four limbs). Stephens said he won't sure he is quadriplicic that his life was worth living even if he were some quadriplicen seems apt to enjoy existence.
Stephens said he had been involved with passive euthanasia up to the level of stopping treatment without the patient's consent. He said that if he had created an unconscious patient to the best of his ability and the patient had no brain function, then
Fund ...
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The Federation of Black Student Social Workers and the Federation of Chicano and Native American Student Social Workers said they were already affiliated with the KU Federation of Student Social Workers and shared the same office.
THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE and Urban Design Student Council, the KU Business School Council and the Education Students Advisory Board all requested educational speakers. The Business School Council also requested $275 for a calculator.
The committee will hear the remaining groups when it meets at 6:30 Monday night in Parlor A of the Kansas Union. Blessing begins with a prayer and final deliberations by 7:15 Monday night.
Amounts requested by the various groups Thursday were: Women in Law, $822; School of Architecture and Urban Design Student Council, $917; Business School Students, $456; Civil Engineers, $1,369; American Society of Civil Engineers, $306.40; Alpha RhoGamma, $978; Federation of Black Student Social Workers, $240; Federation of Chicano and Native American Student Social Workers, $240; Education Students Advisory Board, $815; Minority Pre-Hace Student Students, $110; and Chicago Law Students, $1,350.
passive euthanasia would be used after discussing it with the patient's family.
THE ONLY WAY STEPHENS said he had been involved in active euthanasia was when a patient with malignancy in the lungs developed respiratory distress and constantly gasped for air. The patient would escalate the administration of morphine or morpheine-like drugs that would soothe the patient and make him less anxious to get enough air.
"This is something I would do and have done," Stephens said. "However, I'm not now ready emotionally to carry out the active administration of poison to a patient."
"I've been asked to do this by patients,
and I cannot do it."
Stephens said he would like to see a law allowing the practice of active euthanasia, but he said it would have to be very comprehensive. There are so many contingencies involved that it would be hard to make a comprehensive law, he said.
Another Med Center doctor, Charles D. Haas, fell in love of the division of clinical oncology, said the levels up to and including helping a patient end his own life were usable and rational proposing to the patient the life with or without his consent impossible.
Most patients who consider euthanasia prefer indirect forms, he said. Also, when a patient is incoherent and has only a few words to say, he may choose to stop, treatment, and let the patient go.
"Given a legal climate that would approve of direct euthanasia with the patient's knowledgeable choice of that option," Hassai wrote in an article on euthanasia in that setting objectionable."
MAJOR _ MEDICAL TREATMENT centers are often used for consultation by physicians in the region served by the center, to determine whether further potentially useful therapy is available, Haas said.
Each medical field has to determine what would be best for that field concerning euthanasia he said. Also, any decisions on euthanasia guidelines would be subject to change as new therapies develop, he said. Also, any decisions on euthanasia guidelines would be subject to change as new therapies develop, he said.
Robert Treworthy, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Med Center who works in pediatric hematology, said he didn't discuss that because they were children. The patients
aren't asked to make direct verbal decisions on whether to start or stop a treatment or to change treatment because the patient is shipped to make a medical decision, he said.
"However, the parents of leukemic children know ahead of time that the disease may be fatal and they're prepared to face it," he said. "Sometimes they do ask that we stop treatment and just make the child comfortable."
TRUEWORTHY SAID he had never stopped treatment for a child without parental permission. Active euthanasia never comes up because parents won't take it upon themselves to make this decision, he said.
Marin Cvinen, a recent graduate of the Med School who is working with Lawrence physician Wayne E. Hird, said the initiative toward euthanasia should come from the patient in cases in which the patient was alert and aware of the situation. If the patient isn't conscious, then the doctor shouldn't take the initiative for euthanasia, he said.
women like to see a law that allowed active euthanasia, because it would mean somebody or some group would be setting criteria for ending life," Cohen said. "That means women should then be chosen to it. Each case is individual and should be decided separately."
Budget...
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program will provide for a fund to repair the device, the elderly at the bandcapped and the poor.
Approval of the appropriations bill was held up by a three-hour floor debate in a controversy unrelated to the University budget.
State Rep. Jim Lawing, D-Wichita, challenged a tuition grant program that is a part of the regents' budget. The program provides tuition grants to students attending private colleges in the state, many connected to religious organizations.
Lawing said the program violated the principle of the separation of church and state. His amendment to delete funding of the program was defeated.
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AURH backs McCollum's bid for social, vandalism allocations
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said,
he noticed that I feel that this calls for a
seasonal extension.
By CASS WONG Kansan Staff Reporter
The Association of University Residence Halls (AUR) voted Thursday night to support McCollin Hallow's request for Social Worker training before the Administrative Housing Board.
Other business discussed at the meeting included the establishment of four student internships to carry on AURH activities during the summer.
"About 87 to 90 new moved into McCollum this semester, making a net increase of 101 occupied spaces," Fishbein said.
Joe Fishbein, McCollium president, said that three wings of students who had moved into the hall for the spring semester didn't special or vandalism funds allocated to them.
He said that accounts for social activities and protection against vandalism were funded from hall contract fees based on the number of occupied spaces in the fall semester.
He said that many of these students had moved into rooms where they were opened to the spring sessions.
TWO OCCUPIED SPACES are counted
a person playing for a single room or
for a group of people.
west wing and the seventh floor west and south wings.
FISHIBU SAID that if the request were passed by the Administrative Housing office, it would have to obtain further通知 before someone actually be approved by the state comproller.
He said his requests were based on one-half of the yearly social fee and vandalism fee for each of the occupied spaces not allocated funds.
He said the original apportionment in the fall had taken into account that the number of occupied spaces in the spring might increase.
The fall allocation would be fine if dorms couldn't increase or decrease demand.
Fisbain said he was asking for $380 in social fund allocations and about $650 for the arts.
The interns will be given a stipend of $600 as well as free room and board in a dorm.
AURH ALSO VOTED to hire four students to assume AURH duties for June and July.
The internship applications will be reviewed by the 1974 interns, one administration AURH, one member AURH executive AURH exec and one member of the AURH assembly.
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