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. 2006 Apr;32(4):225-8.
doi: 10.1136/jme.2005.013847.

Framing euthanasia

J P Bishop  1
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Framing euthanasia

J P Bishop. J Med Ethics. 2006 Apr.

Abstract

Death cannot be mastered through a metaphysics of efficiency that interprets all actions in terms only of cause and effect, but it can be transcended if we leave the frame open to death's ambiguity

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