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\nreligious issues involved in the withholding and withdrawing oftreatment.On the individual level,troubled patients and families,who wrote seeking information and advice,gained insight and cour-age from her thoughtfulreplies.She expressed some of her thoughtsabout old age and death in an interview with People Magazine in1975:\"Death (has)followed sex as the last taboo.The average per-son is beginning to realize that death is the final great experience.Why do we celebrate birthdays?What has anyone done to deserveit?We should emulate the Chinese,who venerate old age andcelebrate death,for in a sense we are celebrating the life that wentbefore it.\"  \nKatharine Mali,euthanasia pioneer and CFD president during thedecade 1969-1979,died of a heart attack on June 24 at her summerhome in Winsted,Connecticut.Readers who attended the 1970 an-nual conference of CFD(then the Euthanasia Educational Council)may remember Mrs.Mali's opening remarks,in which she said,\"Our aim is to humanize the treatment of terminal illness so thatdeath may come gently.\"Her wish for others was realized in herown death,which came while she was asleep.She was 78.  \nA lifelong worker for humanitarian causes,Mrs.Mali had be-come internationally known in recent years as an advocate for theright of the terminally ill to refuse treatment.Her interest in theproblems that surround death and dying in a society that places highvalue on the achievements of medical technology led her to join the  \nMrs.Mali was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.Her interests in-cluded the field of family planning and she served for a number of  \nboard of directors of the EuthanasiaSociety of America in 1955.In 1967,the Society was superseded by theEuthanasia Educational Council andshe was named an officer of the neworganization,succeeding to the pres-idency in 1969.  \nyears as a director of the AmericanBirth Control League,which later be-came the Planned Parenthood Federa-tion of America,and of the New YorkCity Planned Parenthood,which laterbecame Planned Parenthood of Man-hattan and the Bronx.She was a mem-ber of the board of the Art Workshop;of Reid Hall in Paris,a forerunner ofthe student exchange movement;andof the Greater New York Council forForeign Students.She also served onthe boards of the Berkshire Farm forBoys and the Gateway School of NewYork,an institution for the handi-capped.She was president of the Cos-mopolitan Club from 1952 to 1955 anda trustee of Bryn Mawr College from1960 to 1965.  \nMrs.Mali was one of a smallgroup of leaders and friends of theCouncil who conceived and draftedthe Living Will in the late 1960s.Re-sponding to mounting concern overthe subjection of dying patients tounwanted life-prolonging treatment,she carried her campaign for theWill to the public in press and tele-vision interviews.At the time of herdeath,more than four million copiesof the Living Will had been distrib-uted in answer to requests.  \nShe is survived by her husband,Henry J.Mali of New York andWinsted,Connecticut;three sons,Frederick J.,H.Allen,and Derek,allof New York;and five grandchildren.A memorial service will be held inNew York this fall.  \nCFD conferences and publicationshave reflected many of the questionsMrs.Mali raised about the practiceand goals of medicine,about the di-lemmas of decision-making for theterminally ill,and about ethical and  \nKatharine Mali  \n  Colleagues Recall Kay Mali—Teacher,Humanitarian,Cherished Friend    \n\"Her vitality delighted me.Ibelieve that she was one ofAmerica's modern heroines,and shall be so noted in his-tory.Many people were madeto evaluate their beliefs andmany were helped to havetheir final wishes honored be-cause Katharine Mali lived.\"  \n\"Kay,for me,was an idealteacher.She involved me,then inspired me,and thenguided me.I will miss mosther unfailing sense of the ap-propriate.She always had theidea,the words to express it,the quotation to support it,the wisdom,poetry 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