A life or death situation

cardiac surgery: a matter of life or death

Euthanasia: a matter of life or death?

right to hasten death’ ... but on well established, traditional rights to bodily integrity and freedom from unwanted touching.”41 Taken in their totality, these cases show that the American courts have cleaved closely to the guiding principle of one’s liberty to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and have thus far shown no signs of crossing to the other side of the act-omission divide. 35. Wash...

A matter of life or death

“Animal rights hunger striker sends message from his deathbed,” announced the Observer in a front-page splash on 6 December, reporting a letter to his supporters from Barry Horne, who had refused food for the previous 60 days. “This is not for me, it is for every animal in every torture laboratory,” said Horne, who had been admitted to York District Hospital in the UK, from prison where he was ...

It's a matter of life or death.

Suspended life or extending death?