Many medical ethicists accept the thesis that there is no moral difference between
withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy. In this paper, we offer an interesting …

Withholding and withdrawing treatment are widely regarded as ethically equivalent in
medical guidelines and ethics literature. Health care personnel, however, widely perceive …

This paper examines the recent prominent view in medical ethics that withdrawing life‐
sustaining treatment (LST) is an act of killing. I trace this view to the rejection of the …

Deciding whether to withhold and/or withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a critically ill,
technologydependent patient raises some of the most difficult ethical issues. 1 When facing …

This article discusses recent arguments of Franklin Miller and Robert Truog about
withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and causation. The authors argue that traditional …

This paper argues that Sulmasy and Sugarman have not succeeded in showing a moral
difference between withholding and withdrawing treatment. In particular, they have …

While substantial progress has been made in reaching a moral and policy consensus
regarding forgoing life-sustaining treatment, several holes exist in that consensus where …

Decisions about withdrawing and withholding treatment are common in health care. During
almost every encounter between health professionals and patients a decision needs to be …

The recognition of the ethical and legal appropriateness of withholding or withdrawing life-
sustaining medical treatment is now ingrained as an essential part of the medical decision …

Several papers in this issue relate to the questions of-or as some would have it, the question
of-(a) when and why to forego life-prolonging treatment and (b) whether intentional killing of …