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Debate over euthanasia renews as conference opens
The first National Voluntary Euthanasia Conference opens in San Francisco amid debate sparked by the Koestler deaths and Hemlock's book Let Me Die Before I Wake. supporters call it a civil liberty for the terminally ill, while critics from the National Right to Life and religious scholars warn of dangers and moral issues.
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Glenn Collins
New York Times Service
New York
Arthur Koestler
London
Koestler
Dallas
American Association of Suicidology
Unitarian Center
San Francisco
Hemlock
Derek Humphry
Humphry
Jack Willke
National
Right To Life
Willke
William B. Smith
St. Joseph’s Seminary
Yonkers
John D. Arras
Montefiore Medical Center
New York City