End-of-life care and religion: Reconciling Jewish law and medicine

When my small-group facilitator asked whether withdrawing life support is morally different from withholding it, my classmates offered the usual responses: autonomy, prognosis, and suffering. My mind was somewhere else entirely. It was the first time I had understood something that I had never questioned. In medicine, categories exist to serve people; in Jewish law

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End-of-life care and religion: Reconciling Jewish law and medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

 

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