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“Does the kind of thinking that permits assisted suicide provide a moral basis for protecting the preciousness of human life or does it fail to provide a moral structure that will predictably protect individual and communal life? What”
― Arthur J. Dyck, Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide

“It is frighteningly naive to assume that when our guide to medical practice is "doing what the patient wants," we will escape the imposition of the physician's values on the clinical encounter. Personal values can he sequestered in the question not asked, or the gentle challenge not posed, when both should have been.12”
― Arthur J. Dyck, Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide

“For the question as to when killing and being killed are to be practiced and condoned is an abiding question for communities as a whole, as well as for their individual members.
The”
― Arthur J. Dyck, Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide

“The central argument of this book is that there is a solid moral and practical basis for the laws against assisted suicide that now exist in the United States and elsewhere. Furthermore,”
― Arthur J. Dyck, Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide

“At stake then in the debate over assisted suicide is nothing less than a shift away from a moral
structure that is at once the expression of our shared humanity and also the source of the responsibilities and rights necessary to sustain individual and communal life. Or”
― Arthur J. Dyck, Life's Worth: The Case Against Assisted Suicide