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End of Life Care: What Do Religions Say?

posted on June 4, 2014

The BBC’s Flavia Di Consiglio reports on what guidance different faith traditions can offer believers at the end of life. “Although there can be variations in how branches of the same faith view specific situations, there is one common thread: that life is sacred and should be preserved,” she writes. As a rabbi explained to Di Consiglio: “The challenge … comes when we need to determine whether we are preserving life or prolonging dying.”

Read at BBC