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The Harold Shipman case has shocked the nation - how could a doctor held in trust by his patients dispatch as many as 170 of them without raising suspicions? It is a chilling reminder of the privileged position doctors hold, and the need for safeguards against the abuse of such...
In late 1992, after Dr Nigel Cox had been found guilty of attempting to murder a patient in a euthanasia scenario and after the first court ruling that food and fluid could be withdrawn from Tony Bland, the Hillsborough victim in a persistent vegetative state, the UK House of Lords...
Deadly doctors However, Newcastle GP Dr David Moor was charged this September with murdering one of his patients.[2] The trial begins in Newcastle Crown Court on 19 October. This followed Dr Moor's admission in July 1997 that he had helped 'a large number' of patients to die during his 30 year...
There are only two instances of voluntary euthanasia in the Bible. In the first, Abimelech, believing himself to be fatally wounded with a fractured skull after being hit on the head by a millstone, asks his armour-bearer to kill him. His request is granted and the Israelite leader is thus...
Introduction On the afternoon of Saturday April 15th 1989, 17 year old football fan Tony Bland was one of hundreds who suffered crush injuries at the Hillsborough Stadium tragedy in Sheffield. On arrival in hospital he was treated intensively with insertion of drains to his bilateral tension pneumothoraces, intubation and...
IntroductionThe arguments for and, particularly, against suicide are very similar to those that concern euthanasia and since they have already been discussed at length in this book and elsewhere I won't reiterate them here.[1,2] One of the difficulties facing the Christian who wishes to arrive at an ethical understanding of...
The Submission can be found at www.cmf.org.uk/ethics/submissions/?id=2.
'It's my right' has become a rallying cry in this century, relating to almost any matter from human rights to the right to a holiday. Some very basic rights in the area of life and death are being claimed. A person's right to life itself is one with which we...
