Afterlife Quote by John Rawls

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“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

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to or analyzable…

— T. M. Scanlon

They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing…

— Arthur Schopenhauer