Editorial March 22, 1999 Issue

Issues of LIFE

William E. Moody

A NATIONALLY televised physician-assisted suicide. The uncommon birth of octuplets. At first, these two recent events in the United States might appear to have little in common. After all, in one instance a doctor has been charged with homicide. In the other, a mother's strength and courage in embracing life have been widely reported.

Material methods,
even when
allied with
advanced
technologies,
do not decide
the vital issues of life.