Adhere Quote by Sherwin B. Nuland

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

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

Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I…

— Pope John Paul II

Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

— Pope John Paul II

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

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

— Jamie Fellner

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

— Ezekiel Emanuel

“Euthanasia is not legal but it is being practiced. Last”

— Anonymous

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

“My third contention is that at times of extreme pain for the patient, euthanasia is the most humane alternative.”

— Matthew Thomas

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 legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely…

— Pope John Paul II