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Chapter 3 - Suicide Down the Ages - A Judeo-Christian Perspective (Euthanasia Booklet)

IntroductionThe arguments for and, particularly, against suicide are very similar to those that concern euthanasia and since they have already been discussed at length in this book and elsewhere I won't reiterate them here.[1,2] One of the difficulties facing the Christian who wishes to arrive at an ethical understanding of...

Chapter 7 - Submission from CMF to the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Medical Ethics (Euthanasia Booklet)

The Submission can be found at www.cmf.org.uk/ethics/submissions/?id=2.

A Right to Die (nucleus - spring 1994)

'It's my right' has become a rallying cry in this century, relating to almost any matter from human rights to the right to a holiday. Some very basic rights in the area of life and death are being claimed. A person's right to life itself is one with which we...

Chapter 4 - Should Doctors Support the Living Will? (Euthanasia Booklet)

Although the concept of the living will has been around in the USA for over 20 years, there are still some doctors in Britain to whom it is unfamiliar. So it will be well to start with a definition. The term 'living will' has been applied to a written statement...

Euthanasia - a Review of Recent Events (nucleus - autumn 1993)

Two recent court cases have fuelled calls for a change in British law regarding euthanasia. In the first, Nigel Cox, a Winchester rheumatologist, was found guilty of the attempted murder of a patient with rheumatologist arthritis, after giving her a lethal injection of potassium chloride in August 1991. He was...

Submission from CMF to the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Medical Ethics (01/03/1993)

In Spring 1993 CMF was invited to make a Submission to the House of Lords' Select Committee on Medical Ethics, whose terms of reference were: 'to consider the ethical,...