PULLMAN, Wash. — The death of Terry Schiavo highlights the growing disconnect between the medical technology we’ve developed and our ability to know when to use it, according to a Washington State University professor.
“We’ve been a ‘death denying’ society for many years,” according to Margaret Young, a former registered nurse who now is a professor in the Department of Human Development at WSU. “Today, however, we also have the technology to be a ‘death defying’ society.”
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