The issue of optimal medical care and the most appropriate ways of dealing with pain and
suffering, while maintaining human dignity as debilitating diseases bring us toward the ends …

The debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS) continues to ignore the
philosophical anthropology on which certain critical claims rest. In this paper, I offer several …

Society's understanding of the nature of suffering impacts the development of health-care
public policy, having a significant impact on care of the elderly and those with disabilities …

The debate over legalization of physician-assisted suicide is inherently controversial,
particularly where disability issues and physician-assisted suicide intersect. This is the area …

Continuous Sedation at the End of Life patient or the patient's family; Rietjens and
colleagues claim that “terminal sedation was almost always discussed with relatives but not …

What control should we have over our death? In this paper, I re-examine the way this
question has been approached in the euthanasia debate by exploring what it means to take …

This article responds to the reflections on Disability in the Christian Tradition that are
collected in this journal issue, especially those of Amos Yong, Deborah Beth Creamer …

In the polarized debates about abortion and voluntary euthanasia, disability advocates, who
normally align with left-wing social forces, have tended to side with conservative and …

In this paper I attempt to address what appears to be a novel theoretical and practical
problem concerning physician-assisted suicide (PAS). This problem arises out of a newly …