the most recent cases and legal developments in Germany, Britain, USA, Australia, and the Netherlands helps to fill this gap. Taking the approach of a critical commentator on historical sources, the author presents a wide range of positions in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the medical profession, law, and philosophy (including the contributions by Friedrich Nietzsche and Peter Singer). I...

Active euthanasia, which is defined as the intentional act of causing the death of a patient experiencing great suffering, is illegal in France, whereas allowing patients to die (by withholding or withdrawing treatment) is authorized by law under certain conditions. However, the distinction between the different end-of-life decisions that healthcare professionals can make is perhaps less clearl...

In the recent case of Stransham-Ford v. the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, the North Gauteng High Court held that a terminally ill patient who was experiencing intractable suffering was entitled to commit suicide with the assistance of his doctor and that the doctor's conduct would not be unlawful. The court was careful to state that it was not making a general rule about doctor...

suffering from those diseases which medical sciences have still failed to cure are some of the bitter events of human society. the ineffective treatments administered for these groups of diseases have been imposing heavy costs on patient’s families. these have often resulted in no major improvement of the patients’ overall well-being, only slightly increasing the life span of the patients which...

conclusions iranian nurses in east azerbaijan provence have negative attitudes toward different aspects of euthanasia and this negative attitude is not related to religious or legal issues. so, searching for the reasons for such an attitude needs more investigation. results participants had a negative attitude towards all aspects of euthanasia. they reported that they would not participate in e...

BACKGROUND In the current public debate in France about end-of-life and legalization of euthanasia, palliative care is considered as a suitable answer or an alternative or even a supplement to euthanasia. The debate is based on opinion surveys, partly because there is a lack of objective data about the incidence of euthanasia requests (ER) in palliative care settings. The aim of this study was ...

* Ph.D., M.D., Department of Philosophy, Rice University, Professor Emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, Texas ABSTRACT: Christian bioethics conflicts with secular morality and its bioethics. From artificial insemination from donors, embryonic stem-cell research, and abortion to passive euthanasia, the commitments of traditional Christian bioethics collide with those of the dominant s...