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Death and euthanasia in Jewish law : essays and responsa / edited by Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer
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ISRAEL BETTAN

many others, having failed to confess, also failed to recover. You who are about to confess your sins will surely be rewarded with renewed life. Also, confession assures one of his due portion of the world to come (ibid., 338).

The physician, who respects the truth and maintains truthful relations with all men, need have no qualms of conscience when, in certain special cases, in the pursuit of the good of a patient, he complies with the requirements of the situation and suppresses what appears to him to be the truth.

*Walter Jacob , American Reform Responsa ed., New York , 1983,# 74.