Assisted suicide Quote by Arthur J. Dyck

“Does the kind of thinking that permits assisted suicide provide a moral basis for protecting the preciousness of human life or does it fail…

— Arthur J. Dyck

“The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now…

— Arthur J. Dyck

“The rational arguments against suicide are compelling. It causes intense suffering for loved ones that few would intend in their right mind. It is…

— Michael Gerson

What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines: for example,…

— John Rawls

With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We…

— Arthur Caplan

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of…

— Gary Bauer

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.”

— John Zea

“Preventing a suicide is not necessarily a beneficent act if it forces the potential suicide to continue in a life of misery.”

— Gene Lester

“The answer to these questions is tied to the public's attitude about suicide. For many people, suicide is morally reprehensible. It's against their religion,…

— John Bateson

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

— Ezekiel Emanuel