@article{ref1,
title="Confucian ethic of death with dignity and its contemporary relevance",
journal="Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics",
year="1999",
author="Lo, P-c",
volume="19",
number="",
pages="313-333",
abstract="This paper advances three claims. First, according to contemporary Western advocates of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, &quot;death with dignity&quot; is understood negatively as bringing about death to avoid or prevent indignity, that is, to avoid a degrading existence. Second, there is a similar morally affirmative view on death with dignity in ancient China, in classical Confucianism in particular. Third, there is a consonance as well as dissonance between these two ethics of death with dignity, such as that the Confucian perspective would regard the argument for physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia as less than compelling because of the latter's impoverished vision of human life.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0732-4928",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}