Dying with dignity
Dying with dignity
New euthanasia law provides breakthrough for synagogue-state relations
Yehiel Bar-Ilan, YNET
For some reason the media insists on calling it the "Euthanasia Law," but in fact the new law explicitly prevents exactly that.
This is not the only paradox that exists with regard to the care of the terminally ill. Wednesday the Knesset completed legislation on the issue, based on a proposal by a committee of dozens of experts, doctors, rabbis, philosophers, and theologians representing a wide swath of Israeli society.
Orthodox and Reform, atheists and religious Jews, doctors and nurses worked together in unprecedented fashion, under the guidance of Committee Chairman Rabbi Dr. Steinberg to create a proposal text for a revolutionary law on a sensitive and painful issue.
Law states life of terminally ill person who does not wish to continue living will not be extended artificially; health minister: ‘This is one of most important laws passed by Knesset. It represents major moral value for terminally ill and their families’
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Posted by Ted Belman at December 7, 2005 10:46 AM
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Dying with dignity
New euthanasia law provides breakthrough for synagogue-state relations
Yehiel Bar-Ilan, YNET
For some reason the media insists on calling it the "Euthanasia Law," but in fact the new law explicitly prevents exactly that.
This is not the only paradox that exists with regard to the care of the terminally ill. Wednesday the Knesset completed legislation on the issue, based on a proposal by a committee of dozens of experts, doctors, rabbis, philosophers, and theologians representing a wide swath of Israeli society.
Orthodox and Reform, atheists and religious Jews, doctors and nurses worked together in unprecedented fashion, under the guidance of Committee Chairman Rabbi Dr. Steinberg to create a proposal text for a revolutionary law on a sensitive and painful issue.
Law states life of terminally ill person who does not wish to continue living will not be extended artificially; health minister: ‘This is one of most important laws passed by Knesset. It represents major moral value for terminally ill and their families’
MORE
Posted by Ted Belman at December 7, 2005 10:46 AM