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that the dying must be considered as living in every respect. A suicide is termed shekhiv me-ra, which denotes a person who is so severely ill as to be facing imminent death. See 1 ELON, supra note 22, at 1877.
Oxford English Dictionary , Oxford, 1089, p. 444.| “R[abbi] Nahman said in Rabbah b[en] Abbahu’s name: Scripture says,| ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself’: Choose an easy death for him.” San 45a.| Leviticus 19:18.
San 45a.| Commentary to San 45a.
Leonard Kravitz,“Euthanasia, ” Death and Euthanasia in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa,(Walter Jacob& Moshe Zemer eds ), Pittsburgh , 1995, p. 11 ff. Elliot N. Dorff ,“Teshuvah on Assisted Suicide,” Conservative Judaism , Summer 1998, pp. 3ff .
Abraham S. Abrahams, The Comprehensive Guide to Medical Halachah, Jersualem, 1990, p. 177.
Exodus 21:19.
Fred Rosner , Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics , New York , 1991, p. 211. A.Z. 18a.
Hananiah was a second-century C.E. rabbinic scholar. He was executed by the Romans during the Hadrianic repression of Jewish life in Judea . Hanania, when arrested, admitted that he was teaching Torah in violation of the emperor's edicts.“He was sentenced to be burnt at the stake... he was
burnt at the stake wrapped in the Sefer Torah [a scroll on which was written the Five Books of Moses ] which he had been holding when he was arrested. In order to prolong his agony tufts of wool soaked in water were placed over his heart so that he should not die quickly...It is stated that the executioner(quaestionarius), moved by his sufferings, removed and increased the| heat of the fire.” Encyclopaedia Judaica , vol. 7, p. 1254.
David Feldman,“The End of Life,” Hippocrates , May/June 1988, p. 24. Semahot 1.1.
Semahot 1.2.
Ibid., 1:4.
Shab. 37a.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Fred Rosner and J. David Bleich , Jewish Bioethics, New York , 1979, p. 262. Jacob ben Asher (12707-1340) Turim.
Turim Yoreh Deah, 339.
Ned. 40a.
Ket. 104a.
Ibid.
Yoma 85a.
San 74a.
Israel Bettan in W. Jacob, American Reform Responsa, New York , 1983, p. 263. Yoel H. Kahn,“On Choosing the Hour of Our Death,” Reform Jewish Quarterly, Summer 1994, p. 65.