Assisted suicide Quote by 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

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

I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists would better…

— Susan P. Crawford

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

— Ezekiel Emanuel

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not…

— Peter Singer

“It is significant that the major world religions having studied the problem of unrelieved suffering for over 2000 years, have independently concluded that there…

— David Jeffrey

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

“To withdraw life-prolonging treatments when these are no longer of benefit to the patient is to recognise the limits of a doctor's power, allowing…

— David Jeffrey

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

“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 choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in…

— Pope John Paul II

“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