| Description |
vi, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Determining death (Sanctity of life/quality of life -- The slippery slope theory -- Geronticide, health rationing and euthansia -- Suicide among the elderly -- Euthanasia, autonomy and moral sanction -- Autonomy and physician-assisted suicide -- Euthanasia and hospice) -- Judaism -- Roman Catholic Church -- Greek Orthodox Church -- Russian Orthodox Church -- Orthodox Church in America -- American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church -- Lutheran Churches -- Episcopal Church-Church of Scotland -- P resbyterian Church (USA) -- United Methodist Church -- Baptist Churches -- Congregational Christian Churches -- United Church of Christ -- United Church of Canada. |
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Cont.): Unitarian Universalist Association -- Mennonite Churches -- Church of the Brethren -- Brethren in Christ Church -- Brethren Church in Ashland, Ohio -- Moravian Church -- Society of Friends (Quaker) -- Christian and Missionary Alliance -- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) -- Church of the Nazarene -- Jehovah's Witness -- Seventh Day Adventists -- Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) -- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints -- Christian Science -- Swedenborgianism -- Unification Church -- Theosophical Society -- American Ethical Union -- American Humanist Association -- Islam -- The Baha'is -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Sikh Dharma -- Krishna Consciousness -- General Guidelines for Six Churches (Christian Reformed Church -- Assemblies of God -- Church of God -- Christian Reformed Church in North America. |
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Cont.): United Pentecostal Church International -- Metropolitan Community Churches). |
| Summary |
Offers readers a spiritual resource guide they can use to make their own informed moral stand in the issue of euthanasia. |
| Subject |
Euthanasia -- Religious aspects.
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Euthanasia.
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Right to Die.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Euthanasia -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00916926
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Dood.
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Religieuze aspecten.
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Judentum (DE-588)4114087-4
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Christentum (DE-588)4010074-1
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Euthanasie.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Larue, Gerald A. Playing God. Wakefield, R.I. : Moyer Bell ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed in North America by Publishers Group West, ©1996 (OCoLC)604773975 |
| ISBN |
1559211458 (alk. paper) |
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9781559211451 (alk. paper) |
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1559211490 (alk. paper) |
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9781559211499 (alk. paper) |
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