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    1. The document discusses issues around terminating medical treatment for dying patients, including infanticide, euthanasia, and biblical perspectives. 2. It presents questions about whether people have a right to die and factors that inform decisions to end treatment. 3. Guidelines are proposed that terminating treatment may be justified when death is imminent and no therapy exists, with only palliative care indicated to minimize stress for the dying patient and family.

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    1. The document discusses issues around terminating medical treatment for dying patients, including infanticide, euthanasia, and biblical perspectives. 2. It presents questions about whether people have a right to die and factors that inform decisions to end treatment. 3. Guidelines are proposed that terminating treatment may be justified when death is imminent and no therapy exists, with only palliative care indicated to minimize stress for the dying patient and family.

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    1. The document discusses issues around terminating medical treatment for dying patients, including infanticide, euthanasia, and biblical perspectives. 2. It presents questions about whether people have a right to die and factors that inform decisions to end treatment. 3. Guidelines are proposed that terminating treatment may be justified when death is imminent and no therapy exists, with only palliative care indicated to minimize stress for the dying patient and family.

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    TERMINATION OF TREATMENT - Euthanasia.Infanticide

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    1. The document discusses issues around terminating medical treatment for dying patients, including infanticide, euthanasia, and biblical perspectives. 2. It presents questions about whether people have a right to die and factors that inform decisions to end treatment. 3. Guidelines are proposed that terminating treatment may be justified when death is imminent and no therapy exists, with only palliative care indicated to minimize stress for the dying patient and family.

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    TERMINATION OF TREATMENT

    INFANTICIDE AND

    EUTHANASIA
    Have you or a family member
    personally been faced with the need
    to make a decision to terminate
    medical treatment for a dying family
    member?
    What were the circumstances, and
    what factors informed your
    decision?
    How has modern medical
    technology both helped and
    hindered such end of life decisions?
    Do you think that people have a
    “right to die”? Do you think that
    existing laws against suicide should
    be retained?
    Why or why not?
    Do you think that a clear moral
    distinction can be maintained
    between a justifiable decision to
    terminate treatment, on the one
    hand, and on the other, an
    unjustifiable decision to exercise a
    “right to die” or to choose
    “physician-assisted suicide”?
    Is it morally justifiable to terminate
    treatment for dying persons?
    BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES
    AND GUIDELINES
    According to the Bible, death is
    unnatural, inevitable, and for the
    Christian, not final. Death is an
    unnatural intrusion into God’s good
    universe. It is a direct consequence
    of man’s sin (Genesis 2:17, “When
    you eat of it you will surely die;”
    Romans 6:23, “for the wages of sin
    is death”).
    At the same time, the Bible teaches
    that death, under the present
    conditions, is inevitable. There is a
    time to be born, and a time to die
    (Ecclesiastes 3:2).
    With these principles in mind, the
    following general guidelines for
    termination of treatment may be
    considered:
    When a disease has advanced to the
    point where no known therapy exists
    and death is imminent despite the
    means used, then forms of treatment
    that would secure “only a precarious
    and burdensome prolongation of life”
    may be discontinued or not
    instituted.
    In such truly terminal cases, the use
    of certain means would not be
    therapeutic, but would only prolong
    an irreversible process of dying. Only
    palliative care is indicated.
    By “terminal illness” is meant an
    incurable, irreversible, and hopeless
    illness for which further interventions
    are expected only to delay the
    moment of death. “Imminent death”
    is taken to mean a circumstance in
    which apart from intensive medical
    support, death would probably occur
    within two weeks.
    “Palliative care” means therapeutic
    measures designed to increase the
    patient’s comfort and control pain, to
    provide food and water and normal
    nursing care, and to minimize stress
    for the dying patient and the family.

    To say that in certain cases palliative


    care alone is indicated is not to
    abandon the patient.

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