End of Life
Hastening Death vs. Letting Death Come: A Reform View
When it's acceptable to use a "living will" to end treatment of terminally ill patients
Euthanasia: A Jewish View
Traditional rabbinic authorities forbid instigating the death of a terminally ill patient.
Proximity and Repair
Even if we are unable to fully fix what's broken, we can begin to make a difference by stepping forward.
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Some Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
The Torah prohibits murder, and the Talmud maintains the prohibition on active killing, even with the terminally ill.
Some Modern Views on Euthanasia
Contemporary Jewish thinkers have expressed a wide range of opinions about the permissibility and parameters of euthanasia.
Soloveitchik on Aninut
During aninut, the phase between death and burial, the despairing mourner is freed of ritual obligations.
Death as Estrangement
Mourning customs reflect the depersonalization and distance from God experienced by the mourner who has just confronted the death of a close relative.
Ultra-Orthodoxy and Organ Donation
After learning the results of an experiment involving a decapitated sheep, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach decided to permit organ donations.
