Eighteenth century, 2
Eighth Amendment rights, 101
Elderly
dementia, 139-142
depression, 142-143
geriatrics, 144-147
leading causes of death, 135-139
personality, 147
values and beliefs, 147
women, 143-144
Emanuel, Ezekiel, 71
End-of-life care
costs, 128-129
pain management, 83-85
physician training, 4, 17
See also Terminally ill patients
End-of-Life Care (EPEC) Project, 17
End-of-Life Choices (organization), 72
End stage renal disease, 125, 127f
England, 57
Ethics
anencephalic infants and organ transplantation, 37, 43
Buddhism, 15-16
Eastern Orthodox Church, 14
future, 20
health care proxies and surrogate decision-makers, 18
Hinduism, 15
Hippocratic Oath, 16
Islam, 15
Judaism, 14-15
patient autonomy, 17-18
patients' desire to know about illness and participate in decision-making, 18
physician responses to patients' requests for aid in dying, 18-20, 19t, 20t
physician training in end-of-life care, 17
physicians' guidelines, 17
Protestantism, 14
Roman Catholicism, 13-14
SUPPORT end-of-life care survey, 21-22, 25-26
treatment of critically ill infants and children, 48-51, 54-56
"Ethics and the Care of Critically Ill Infants and Children" (AAP Committee on Bioethics), 50, 54
Euthanasia
active vs. passive, 57-58
ancient Greece and Rome, 1-2
Buddhism, 16
Death with Dignity Act (Oregon), 70t, 73-75
debate over, 57-59
End-of-Life Choices (organization), 72
history, 57
Islamic belief, 15
Jewish belief, 15
mental suffering as reason for, 77
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), 65-66
Netherlands, 70t, 75-78
nurses, 71-72
opposition to, 65-67, 69-70, 75
patient attitudes and experiences, 69t, 70
physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia distinction, 58-59
physicians' attitudes toward, 67t-68t, 70
Protestantism, 14
reasons for requests, 71
Roman Catholicism, 14
United States, 78
See also Physician-assisted suicide
Euthanasia Society of America. See Choice in Dying (CID)
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