Abstract Quote by Ezekiel Emanuel

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

Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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

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

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of…

— Pope John Paul II

“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

“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

First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug…

— George W. Bush

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

“At stake then in the debate over assisted suicide is nothing less than a shift away from a moral structure that is at once…

— Arthur J. Dyck

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this…

— Richard John Neuhaus

“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