Word: euthanasia
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...also discussed Biblical passages and church doctrines relating to abortion, including a passage in Exodus that fines men who cause miscarriages and the Gospel of Life doctrine of Pope John Paul II, which condemns abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia...
Having a vet who visits is a great help to pet owners looking for end-of-life care and euthanasia. Colleen Carruthers Olexa of Gainesville, Fla., had to have her 12 1/2-year-old Labrador put down two days before Thanksgiving. Dr. Steve Camp arrived at the family's house and helped them say goodbye. Says Olexa: "Pepper was lying in my husband's arms. It was the best you could have in that situation...
...provide a lethal dose of drugs to a terminally ill person if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die, and that the patient administers the drug him- or herself. Euthanasia, however - in which a doctor administers the drugs to end a patient's life - remains illegal in Switzerland, though not in the Netherlands or Belgium. Both these countries permit a physician to end a patient's life, provided that the patient requests it, that he or she is mentally sound...
...want law-enforcement officers looking over their shoulders--and second-guessing their intentions--as they minister to the dying. Although Attorney General John Ashcroft's directive states that the Drug Enforcement Administration does not foresee an "increase in investigative activity...outside of Oregon," even medical groups historically opposed to euthanasia are denouncing the potential intrusion. Dr. Warren Jones, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, called the move a "major travesty" that will encourage physicians to curb the use of pain medications lest their bedside manner be misinterpreted...
...Pope John Paul II, a moral theologian much admired by the very Anabaptist Methodist Hauerwas. Hauerwas recently argued that in a human future he believes will be bleak, Christians should be known as "those peculiar people who don't kill their babies [through abortion] or their old people [through euthanasia...