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Euthanasia, Passive

Known as: Negative Euthanasia, Euthanasia, Negative, euthanasia passive 
Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment.
National Institutes of Health

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2006
2006
Medical Care at the End of Life: A Catholic Perspective
Acknowledgments Introduction Abbreviations Chapter 1. Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment Chapter 2. Killing and Allowing to Die… 
1998
1998
Why causing death is not necessarily morally equivalent to allowing to die - a response to Ferguson
SIR Dr Randall's conclusion that causing death is not necessarily morally equivalent to permitting it is entirely correct but it… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
[Assisted dying--death on demand: borderline between medicine and law].
  • M. Oehmichen
  • Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (Print…
  • 1995
  • Corpus ID: 44406402
In medicine and law the ethical values confront one another: "death with dignity" ("allowing to die") versus the "right to life… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Life on the slippery slope. A bedside view of treating incompetent elderly patients.
Physicians are practicing in an age of cognitive dissonance, doing much for fragile elderly patients in the short run, even if… 
1992
1992
Dying and 'euthanasia'.
  • S. Benatar
  • South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse…
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 31158268
Medical progress, secularisation of life, growing acceptance of individual human rights (including the right to refuse medical… 
1986
1986
Acts and omissions, killing and letting die.
Gillon asks what, if any, moral importance resides in the distinction between killing and letting die in the context of medical… 
1984
1984
Killing and allowing to die in medical practice.
This paper examines some of the issues related to the distinction between acts and omissions. It discusses the difficulties… 
1974
1974
To Live—To Die
None would deny that death is more definitive than even a double-blind experiment; yet, while nearly equal amounts of ethical ink… 
Review
1971
Review
1971
How do nurses feel about euthanasia and abortion?
Members of the faculty involved in a course for medical students on ethical and moral issues confronting American physicians at… 
Review
1970
Review
1970
The preservation of life.
Physicians who treat terminal patients hear requests for negative euthanasia from the families as well as the patients. Pleas for… 
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