Word: euthanasias
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Doctors at Mass General say that the process cannot be called euthanasia, because patients like Quinlan are dead already, even if they breathe and have a pulse...
...cluttered with another set of papers. This is the room where Sissela Bok is writing a book about lying and deception. When she tires of medical ethics, she will write about dishonesty; when she tires of dishonesty, it is back through the bathroom and into the world of euthanasia, abortion and other medical issues...
...broadcast an interview with Corrado Manni, a physician at Rome's Catholic University who specializes in resuscitation. He remarked that a decision to remove the respirator that is keeping Karen Quinlan alive would be "extremely dangerous," and his fellow doctors must not accept even an indirect form of euthanasia (mercy killing), "which renounces therapy." The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano then published a similar commentary by one of its staff members, Father Gino Concetti. He wrote: "It is impossible to support the claim of the right of 'death with dignity.' A right to death does...
Many theologians make a sharp distinction between euthanasia and allowing the patient to die a natural death, usually by failing to take extraordinary or heroic measures. Direct action to kill people who suffer pain or are deemed worthless has always been opposed by both Christianity and Judaism (in contrast to many of the religions and philosophies of the ancient world). It was a simple matter of applying the general commandment against murder: "The innocent and just man thou shall not put to death" (Exodus...
...spokesmen have rallied behind the Quinlans, at least one Protestant, surprisingly, has come out against any court ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion would...