With euthanasia we offer them death instead of loving care.
I feel I'm watching a similar progression with euthanasia.
If hydration is refused, TS cannot be considered synonymous with euthanasia.
Although nurses worldwide are confronted with euthanasia requests, how nurses experience their involvement in euthanasia remains unclear.
If he suggests to relatives that dialysis be withheld for a gravely ill family member, they confuse it with euthanasia.
In the shorter "Comfort", she deals with euthanasia and creationism through two former schoolteachers with impeccably liberal values.
Not all of my friends agree with euthanasia in the first place and that's why it was interesting listening to all their opinions.
The provision requiring that Medicare pay for voluntary end-of-life counseling was introduced by Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican — yes, Republican — of Georgia, who says that it's "nuts" to claim that it has anything to do with euthanasia.
Just as public debate in Australia appears ready to engage more rigorously with euthanasia and at least consider legislation similar to that first adopted by the Northern Territory, Nitschke pushes the boundaries beyond what people, and certainly politicians, are ready for.
In the Netherlands, there is an emphasis on quality of life, with euthanasia restricted to patients whose suffering is "lasting and unbearable" and for whom "no other reasonable solution" is available, as determined by both the patient and physician (Netherlands 2002, Ch. II, Art. 2.1.).
There are so many moral, religious, ethical, medical, emotional and legal aspects associated and entangled with it that one is certainly well advised to tread lightly and wisely when and if venturing into a discussion dealing with euthanasia.
