Prolonging life and allowing death.

Prolonging life and allowing death: infants.

Dilemmas about resuscitation and life-prolonging treatment for severely compromised infants have become increasingly complex as skills in neonatal care have developed. Quality of life and resource issues necessarily influence management. Our Institute of Medical Ethics working party, on whose behalf this paper is written, recognises that the ultimate responsibility for the final decision rests ...

Prolonging Software Life

In his seminal book, The Unfinished Revolution, Professor Michael Dertouzos eloquently argues that the promise of the digital revolution is yet to be fully realized. In particular, the ability to harness the power of the computer to significantly improve the quality of life for the vast majority of humankind remains unfinished. Dertouzos proposes a new paradigm of computing where digital access...

Prolonging life: a traditional interpretation.

Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer.

CONTEXT Patients frequently rely on religious faith to cope with cancer, but little is known about the associations between religious coping and the use of intensive life-prolonging care at the end of life. OBJECTIVE To determine the way religious coping relates to the use of intensive life-prolonging end-of-life care among patients with advanced cancer. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A ...

Withholding life prolonging treatment, and self deception.

OBJECTIVES To compare non-treatment decision making by general practitioners and geriatricians in response to vignettes. To see whether the doctors' decisions were informed by ethical or legal reasoning. DESIGN Qualitative study in which consultant geriatricians and general practitioners (GPs) randomly selected from a list of local practitioners were interviewed. The doctors were asked whethe...