Life's living toward dying
Subtitle: a theological and medical-ethical study
By: Vigen Guroian.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Christian ethics -- Oriental Orthodox authors.; Medical ethics.
Description: In the past several years our culture's long-standing prohibitions against suicide and euthanasia have been seriously challenged. A great tidal change in morality and law may be occurring as the courts seem to be creating a new right - the individual's right to die. In the fall of 1994 the people of Oregon voted to legalize physician-assisted suicide; Michigan's courts continue to acquit Dr.

Jack Kevorkian for his involvement in the deaths of more than two dozen patients; and in several states federal appeals courts have struck down statutes that prohibited physician-assisted suicide. In Life's Living toward Dying Vigen Guroian responds to this challenge. He discusses society's moral confusion over the meaning of death and gives a Christian alternative for care of the dying that is consistent with the strong value that the Christian church has ascribed to human life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.