Death Legal and Illegal
Four ways of ending life remain or have become legal in the eyes of at least some of the United States, notes the author: abortion, capital punishment, war, and suicide; “mercy killing" remains illegal.
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Death by Chance, Death by Choice
Medicine marches on. The law and ethics straggle behind. We have the knowledge to prolong life. Here, a Catholic theologian asks if we have the wisdom to end it.