It is not clear to some philosophers that the distinction between killing and allowing to die is valid. See RachelsJames, “Active and Passive Euthanasia”,New England Journal of Medicine292 (1975) 878–80; Tom L. Beauchamp, “Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Response to Edmund Pellegrino” in Choosing Life, A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae, Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., and Alan C. Mitchell, Eds, Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1997, pp. 254–258; Jeff McMahon, “A Challenge to Common Sense Morality”, Ethics 108 (1998) 394–418. Further, some writers, for political reasons, deliberately confuse the issue. See Margaret Somerville, “Euthanasia by Confusion”, Policy Options 18 (December, 1997), 21–24.
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Allocution to Italian Society of Anaesthesiology, AAS, 1957, 129–147, The Pope Speaks4 (1957) 33–49. Allocution to the International College for Neuro-Psycho-Pharmacology, AAS 1958, 687–696; Documentation Catholique 1958, 1227–1235.
