End-of-life care and religion: Reconciling Jewish law and medicine
When my small-group facilitator asked whether withdrawing life support is morally different from withholding it, my classmates offered the usual responses: autonomy, prognosis, and suffering. My mind was somewhere else entirely. It was the first time I had understood something that I had never questioned.
In medicine, categories exist to serve people; in Jewish law (Halakha), people often exist to serve categories. For years I never saw the cost until we …
End-of-life care and religion: Reconciling Jewish law and medicine
