The devaluation of humanity at one end of the life span has enabled us al¬ ready to dispose
of a large number of problem humans, albeit with no foreseeable end in sight at the moment …

O f all the moral problems confronting the medical profession, the issue of euthanasia is
surely the most perplexing. At least part of the trouble is that the physician, in thinking about …

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During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly …

ongratulations are due for C CMAJs consideration of the ethics of euthanasia with the
articles" Giving death a helping hand"(144: 358-359), by Mina Gasser Battagin, and" Eu …

THE DEBATE OVER ACTIVE EUTHANASIA again has captured public and professional
attention because of the de facto legalization of active voluntary euthanasia in the …

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Physicians are traditionally enjoined above all else to “do no harm.” In general,“doing no
harm” is interpreted as causing only the minimal amount of avoidable or unintentional harm …

Two insights motivate proponents of euthanasia. One is that pain and all the other assaults
upon human autonomy attendant upon disease can be so severe that it can be more …

Most of us, I think, supposed that the debate over euthanasia (doing something to end a life
that could otherwise continue) had been pretty well settled. For a long time a minority …

THE care of the dying patient demands particular understanding and skill on the part of the
physician, and it remains an area where the practice of the art rather than the science of …