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![]() | Firmage, Edwin B. | Common humanity, magnificent diversity | Loss forces us inward toward fundamentals. All great spiritual traditions teach, in the words of Meister Eckhart, that spirituality is about subtraction, not addition, less and less not more and more. It is in losing life that we find it. | Death; Dying | 1995 |
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![]() | Battin, Margaret P. | Least worst death: selective refusal of treatment | In recent years "right-to-die" movements have brought into the public consciousness something most physicians have long known: that in some hopeless medical conditions, heroic efforts to extend life may no longer be humane, and the physician must be prepared to allow the patient to die. Physician re... | Death; Dying; Right to die; Natural death | 1983 |
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![]() | Francis, Leslie | Legal truth and moral realism | This January, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in appeals from two controversial "right to die" cases; decisions in the cases are expected by the end of the term.1 The Ninth Circuit case held that Washington's ban on assisted suicide, including physician-assisted suicide, violate... | Suicide; Dying; Ethics | 1997 |