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An Imperative For Today: Recognizing A Positive Legal Right To Palliative Care (In Hebrew), Reuven Ziegler, Sylviane Colombo
An Imperative For Today: Recognizing A Positive Legal Right To Palliative Care (In Hebrew), Reuven Ziegler, Sylviane Colombo
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
The issue of palliative care, which is increasingly at the heart of the end-of-life discourse in the international legal community, has receive, surprisingly, little to no attention in Israel. The main objective of this paper is to place palliative care on the public and legal agenda, to emphasize the vital importance of openly discussing end-of-life questions, and to bring about a change in the legal status of palliative care in Israel. Discussion of end-of-life issues in the Israeli legal community has until now revolved almost exclusively around the issue of euthanasia; in the few instances where palliative care has been …