Date of Award

4-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Social and Cultural Sciences

First Advisor

Edward A. McGrath

Abstract

In this modern and changing world new problems are constantly arising and older ones are being dispensed with. Man has to adapt himself almost daily to changing and more complex situations. The world has advanced to such an extent that in this present generation we are known as "human machines" rather than human beings. Men are worked until they drop off from the strain or they work until they are broken, decrepit old men, no longer a use to anybody and a burden to almost everybody. As our modernity progressed, so also did conventions and ideas. Ideas of morals changed. Problems, which seventy-five or a hundred years ago were discussed only between members of the family or intimate friends in secrecy, are now openly broached before the public eye. One hundred years ago such a thing as divorce was barely spoken of and a person who got a divorce was practically ostracized. So too with such other problems as Artificial Birth Control, Artificial Insemination, and Euthanasia. As human knowledge and education has developed so much in the past century, it is quite easily understood why these problems should crop up. To our mind, the problem which is the most important of those of the present day is that of Euthanasia, or more commonly known as "mercy killings." It is by far the most revolutionary in its proposals.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the· Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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