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Ethics and Religion Talk: May One Allow One's Pacemaker Battery to Die?

by (Rabbi David J.B...)

Submitted 07-01-2019 under OPINION

From Jim V: There is an elderly patient under hospice care with a pacemaker, stable, not in distress or expected to die in the near future, lucid and oriented cognitively, and ambulatory without aid of a walker or wheel chair. His pacemaker’s...

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