Sanctity of life law has gone too far | BMJ: In a recent court case involving removal of "artificial" nutrition and hydration, a judge said, “[given] the importance of the sanctity of life, and the fatal consequences of withdrawing treatment, and the absence of an advance decision that complied with the requirements previously specified by the common law and now under statute, it would in my judgment be wrong to attach significant weight to those statements made prior to her collapse.” Medical ethics professor Raanon Gillion thinks two aspects of this judgment are "profoundly disturbing."
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