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  1. Orthodox Jewish perspectives on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.Goedele Baeke, Jean-Pierre Wils & Bert Broeckaert - 2011 - Nursing Ethics 18 (6):835-846.
    The Jewish religious tradition summons its adherents to save life. For religious Jews preservation of life is the ultimate religious commandment. At the same time Jewish law recognizes that the agony of a moribund person may not be stretched. When the time to die has come this has to be respected. The process of dying should not needlessly be prolonged. We discuss the position of two prominent Orthodox Jewish authorities – the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi J David Bleich (...)
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