Biblical Ethics and Assisted Suicide

Historical and Biblical references in physician-assisted suicide court opinions.

Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Counseling Ethics

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are distinguished and discussed in the context of the counselor's role in helping terminal clients. An aging population coupled with the proposed legislation in many states to legalize physicianassisted suicide could mean these issues will become more paramount to the counseling profession. Potential ethical dilemmas are discussed using the biopsychosoc...

Biblical Ethics in Medicine

Among Christians a new consciousness in medical ethics has been raised by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The horror of these practices is often called "sound medical practice." This situation brings into question all the ethics of a medical worldview that allowed such practices to become routine. Many ethicists have observed that Protestants have lagged behind in their development of med...

The medical ethics of physician-assisted suicide.

Absolute prohibitions of physician assistance in suicide have long been canonical in medical ethics, but a powerful reformation of views on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is now underway in several countries. The law on physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon, social approval of euthanasia in the Netherlands, and the (in principle) legality of active euthanasia in Japan are...

The Ethics of Suicide

I n 1967, an editorial in The journal of the American Medical Association declared that "The contemporary physician sees suicide as a manifestation of emotional illness. Rarely does he view it in a context other than that of psychiatry" [March 61. It was thus implied, the emphasis being the stronger for not being articulated, that to view suicide in this way is at once scientifically accurate a...