Statement of Purpose
Founded in 1981, CURE is a grassroots network of patient advocates from
a broad range of professional, political, and religious backgrounds bound together in a common cause: uncompromising opposition
to euthanasia. To this end, CURE promotes Compassion, Unity, Research, and Education.
Educational Resources
The "E" in CURE stands for education. Our educational materials seek
to alert a vulnerable public to the growing danger of euthanasia. As all of CURE's life-affirming
services, they're provided free-of-charge on request. A partial list follows.
"Brain Death"--The Hoax That Won't Die
Whether you are classified as dead or alive depends on your attending physician's
concept of death. "As it turned out," notes Dr. Willard Gaylin, "the difficult issue of euthanasia could be avoided by redefining
death."
Because the alternative for a patient in cardiac arrest is death, assuring
access to CPR for all who need it is vital," advises Congress's Office of Technology Assessment, yet "some elderly people
and other people who might benefit from CPR do not receive it."
"Euthanasians have very subtle language, and they abuse language magnificently
to their own ends," warns Fr. Paul Marx, O.S.B. When life is on the line, we must be exact in our choice of words, for years
of bedside battles have convinced CURE that words can kill.
"The (Living) Will," wrote the Washington Post's B.D. Colen, "would
authorize the murder of virtually anyone who filled out a Will, lost consciousness for a period of time, and would in some
way be incapacitated on regaining consciousness."
"Ignorance of genetics may lead more doctors to court," the A.M.A.'s American
Medical News reports, but knowledge of genetics is leading more babies with disabilities to untimely deaths via prenatal
euthanasia.
