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Halachah does not concern • An April 1990 Roper Poll Ms. Norman, who says she is reveals the public's support not religious. What does both for an individual's right concern her is that she will to die and a physician's right one day be able to die what to help a terminally ill pa- Hemlock members call "a tient end his life. good death" — a death for Seventy percent of the which she chooses the time Jews surveyed expressed and place; a death not support for physician- preceded by years of lying in assisted suicide, as did 65 a vegetative state, straining percent of the Protestants the finances and emotions of and 62 percent of the family members; a death Catholics. without pain. Asked whether parents of "I'm not afraid to die," Ms. Nancy Cruzan, a Missouri Norman says. "I'm afraid of woman comatose for the past how I'm going to die." seven years, should be It was the death of his allowed to disconnect the in- wife, Jean, that prompted travenous food and water Derek Humphry to begin the keeping her alive, 52 percent Hemlock Society in 1980. of the Jews surveyed said Mr. Humphry, 59, helped his yes, compared with 55 per- cent of the Catholics and 61 percent of the Protestants. And 80 percent of the Jews, 78 percent of the Catholics and 75 percent of the Protestants surveyed agreed that a doctor should he Union for Tradi- be legally bound to obey a tional Judaism is patient's request to be taken making available a off life-support machines if generic Jewish living will, he has signed a living will which includes one's wishes and there is no hope of re- in the case of the victim's in- covery. capacitation and/or appoints • Thousands of Japanese a surrogate to make the elderly travel each week to a decision. small temple in the ancient Rabbi Ronald Price, ex- capital of Nara to pray for ecutive vice president of the pokkuri, a painless, quick UTJ, said the motivation for end to their lives. It is one of the effort is to enable "the many such pokkuri sites in decision about life or death the country. Said one visitor, to be made in the context of "Young people don't want to Jewish law and tradition." take care of old people." The UTJ living will in- All this has little to do cludes the requirement that with Halachah, Jewish law, those responsible for area rabbis say. Under some deciding to attach or discon- circumstances, Halachah nect life support consult may support an individual's decision to remove life- wife, who had been diag- nosed with breast cancer, kill herself. He is the author of numerous books on the subject of "self-deliverance" — Hemlock's chosen term for suicide — including Let Me Die Before I Wake: Hemlock's Book of Self- Deliverance for the Dying. Let Me Die offers in detail numerous options for ending one's life. The reader learns how many pills are needed for a fatal overdose, and combinations of drugs that result in death. In other writings, Mr. Humphry discusses "self-deliverance via the plastic bag," describ- ing where to place rubber bands to guarantee suffoca- tion, and reviews the merits of using a clear versus an opaque plastic bag. According to Mr. Hum- phry, some 2,000 patients a year ask their doctor to kill them. One of those who suc- ceeded was Hemlock Society member Janet Adkins of Portland. Ms. Adkins, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, ended her life last June with the aid of a "suicide - machine" created by Royal Oak pathologist Jack Kevorkian. The device allows users to inject them- selves with a lethal dose of potassium chloride. Hemlock members say the Adkins episode helped bring the issue of "self- deliverance" to public atten- tion. Another instance is that of Nancy Cruzan, 32, of Missouri, who has been in a coma since she was injured in a car crash seven years ago. Ms. Cruzan's parents fought to remove the feeding UTJ Offers Living Will T with a rabbi versed in Jewish medical ethics. It also includes a statement on the administration of medications for pain relief, and home or hospice care where there is no reasonable hope of recovery. Rabbi Price said that "no organization has stepped forward to deal with this community problem, and we felt it a necessary response to what, is happening in the secular world." Those interested in receiv- ing a copy of the will should write the Union for Tradi- tional Judaism, 261 E. Lin- coln Ave., Mount Vernon, N.Y. 10552. ❑