Death ethics : religious and cultural values in prolonging and ending life / Kenneth Vaux.

Author: Vaux, Kenneth L., 1939-

Imprint:Philadelphia : Trinity Press International, 1992.

Descriptionxiii, 210 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:1. The Philosophical Ethics of Suicide -- 2. Theological Ethics and Euthanasia -- 3. Biology, Ethics, and Letting Nature Take Its Course -- 4. The Ecological Background of Mortality and Ethics -- 5. Historic Ethics and Genocide -- 6. Legalistic Ethics and the Lingering Doubt about Withdrawing Life Supports -- 7. The Ethics of Secular Eschatology: Death and the Scientific Future -- 8. Death and the Sacred Future: Eschatological Ethics.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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