The Titration of Death: A New Sin
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Freedman, Benjamin
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Journal of Clinical Ethics. 1990 Winter; 1(4): 275-277.
Abstract
..."Titration of death" is the phrase I have used, in private musings and discussions, to express the undertaking of causing or permitting death to occur within carefully delimited parameters. It is, I think, a new form of sin. I distinguish it from a similar enterprise, in principle benign, that we might call "titration of dying," which attempts to manage the
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1990Subject
Aborted Fetuses; Abortion; Active Euthanasia; Allowing to Die; Anencephaly; Brain; Brain Death; Cadavers; Communication; Death; Determination of Death; Ethical Analysis; Euthanasia; Fetuses; Heart Diseases; Intention; Killing; Life; Methods; Newborns; Organ Donation; Prolongation of Life; Surgery; Terminology; Tissue Donation; Twins;
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