Ç A FTER ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death for nearly two thousand
years, the traditional western ethic has collapsed.'-X JLSo begins Peter Singer's book. As …

When medical science became capable of prolonging the dying process beyond the point
that most patients would wish, medical management of the dying process became a …

During the fall of 1998, one of the top news stories in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan
area was that of Hugh Finn, who was left in a permanent vegetative state after a car …

Ever since biblical times,'the voluntary euthanasia debate has raged unabated, and there is
no realistic prospect that the debate is going away in the near future. 2 Every new discovery …

Some people call Peter Singer one of the most outstanding contemporary philosophical
minds. Others have called him the most dangerous person in the world today. He could be …

Attorney General Ashcroft wants to stop doctors who kill. He has good reason: doctors have
a special responsibility to show by word and deed, in season and out, that intentionally …

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-
degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending …

First paragraph: As Andrew Sanders makes depressingly clear, those who are considering
whether to ask another for help in ending their lives, or whether to respond to such requests …

It is a familiar fact that advances in medical science now preserve life when, in earlier years,
death would have been a virtual certainty. The lives of newborn and aged individuals …

With the growing trend toward acceptance of physician-assisted suicide, even Christians are
beginning to factor the possibility into their ethical understandings. Would it be …