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What, then, are our duties as patients, or potential patients, with regard to the preservation of life? What are the corresponding duties of doctors and other health professionals? ... Search || Home » Miscellaneous » 'Ordinary' and 'extraordinary' means of prolonging life...
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EXTRAORDINARY MEANS Such means of preserving human life as cannot be obtained or used without extreme difficulty in terms of pain, expense, or other burdening factors. The burden applies either to the person whose life is at stake or to those on whom his or her welfare depends. ... Light a lamp and keep it burning.
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Answers to these questions are often phrased in terms of a contrast between what are called 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' means or measures of prolonging life. It should be noted that the terms 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' can be used in different ways.
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The Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics www.linacre.org `Ordinary' and `extraordinary' means of prolonging life 5 to live in the country he happens to prefer. The same can be said of the patient who refuses some treatment he finds unappealing, while foreseeing and accepting that his life will be shortened as a result.
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Later, that feeding tube was deemed by a judge as an extraordinary means of keeping Nancy alive. It was removed and Nancy died of starvation and dehydration. Terri Schiavo was once able to eat soft foods. But for the very same reasons as Nancy Cruzan a feeding tube was inserted.
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The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water (Medical Ethics) ... Volume 517; Reprint Edition; 314 pages; Paperback; Published by Indiana University Press; Publication date: October 1990; ISBN: 0253205174 ... Intended for a professional audience, this book examines the medical ethics associated with nutritional care of...
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Weighing 'extraordinary means': feeding tubes create special issues in health ca - The case of Terri Schiavo, a brain damaged Florida woman whose family : Encyclopedia.com ... Find more facts and information related to the article "Weighing 'extraordinary means': feeding tubes ..."
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In the 16th century, the Church began teaching formally that there was a distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means of care, and that declining extraordinary interventions was not suicide. Thus, Francisco de Vitoria writes,
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