An Age of Arrogance

Editorialist Paul Greenberg has written a compelling critique of a society that prefers dehydrating the profoundly cognitively impaired rather than nurse and care for them. Key quote: “What arrogance to decree that, because we deem another’s life not worth living, it must be ended. But that is the spirit, or spiritlessness, of the age.”

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