The Life Information Charitable Trust - Impact on Society
The Life Information Charitable Trust - Impact on Society:
"Doctors and Hospital Boards are increasingly winning Court battles that give them the right to withdraw and withhold treatment from disabled and terminally ill patients. Those opposed to EAS believe that this is happening for economic reasons.
Individual autonomy has increasingly given way to decision-making by health care professionals and bioethicists, whose 'futile care theory' measures the value of human life according to the financial cost of keeping the individual alive.
In Holland where euthanasia is legal many people now carry �anti-euthanasia passports� because they are afraid they may be killed if admitted to hospital. 9"
"Doctors and Hospital Boards are increasingly winning Court battles that give them the right to withdraw and withhold treatment from disabled and terminally ill patients. Those opposed to EAS believe that this is happening for economic reasons.
Individual autonomy has increasingly given way to decision-making by health care professionals and bioethicists, whose 'futile care theory' measures the value of human life according to the financial cost of keeping the individual alive.
In Holland where euthanasia is legal many people now carry �anti-euthanasia passports� because they are afraid they may be killed if admitted to hospital. 9"
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