Life as an intrinsic rather than instrumental good: the "spiritual" case against euthanasia.

From: Issues in Law & Medicine | Date: September 22, 1993| Author: Bleich, J. David | Copyright information

"But your blood of your lives will I require; from the hand of every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of a person's brother, will I require the life of man."(1) This earliest and most detailed biblical prohibition against homicide contains one phrase that is an apparent redundancy. Since the phrase "from the hand of man" pronounces man culpable for the murder of this fellow man, to what point is it necessary for Scripture to reiterate "from the han...

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