"Futile Care" and Severely Ill Children
Doctors and hospitals are increasingly opting to terminate care in cases where continued treatment is deemed futile. Parents are urged to let their child go -- but what if the doctors are wrong? These sites offer a variety of perspectives and cases dealing with the issues and complications involved with the theory of "futile care."
Futile Care Theory and Medical Fascism: The Duty to Die
An article by attorney Wesley J. Smith, attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, outlines the problems with allowing doctors to decide who should die.
An article by attorney Wesley J. Smith, attorney for the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, outlines the problems with allowing doctors to decide who should die.
End-of-Life Care for Children and Adolescents: Issues and Ethics
Article for members of the nursing profession on the issues involved in care of terminally ill children, including futile care and withdrawing life support.
Article for members of the nursing profession on the issues involved in care of terminally ill children, including futile care and withdrawing life support.
The Empowered Patient
The mother of a child with cancer tells of her family's fight to keep her daughter on chemotherapy, and the difference the extra 19 months of her life meant to them all.
The mother of a child with cancer tells of her family's fight to keep her daughter on chemotherapy, and the difference the extra 19 months of her life meant to them all.
Palliative Care for Children
Policy statement from the Committee on Bioethics and Committee on Hospital Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Includes sections on "Working with Parents of Dying Children" and "Hastening Death."
Policy statement from the Committee on Bioethics and Committee on Hospital Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Includes sections on "Working with Parents of Dying Children" and "Hastening Death."
Bioethics on NBC's ER
An article on bioethics.net praises the show's depiction of a mother agreeing to end aggressive care for her child so that organ donation can be made possible.
An article on bioethics.net praises the show's depiction of a mother agreeing to end aggressive care for her child so that organ donation can be made possible.
Futility Policies and the Duty to Die
A nurse writes about "futile care" from a Catholic perspective.
A nurse writes about "futile care" from a Catholic perspective.
There Is No Dignity in Our Death Culture
"Medicine is changing from a system based on the sanctity of life into a model where the medically defenseless have not just the right but the duty to die." From christianity.ca.
"Medicine is changing from a system based on the sanctity of life into a model where the medically defenseless have not just the right but the duty to die." From christianity.ca.