Bioethics in Faith and Practice, Volume 2, Number 1

Bioethics in Faith and Practice ⦁ 2016 ⦁ Volume 2 ⦁ Number 1 17 Concerning Nutrition and Hydration,” (2007) and "Commentary of Certain Questions Concerning Nutrition and Hydration," (2009). 55 Markwell and Brown, “Bioethics”, p. 189. 56 Richard A. McCormick, “Physician Assisted Suicide – Flight from Compassion”, in The Christian Century , volume 108, number 35 (December 4, 1991), pp. 1132-1134 at p. 1133; and McCormick, “Moral Considerations,” p. 210. 57 McCormick, “Moral Considerations,” p. 214. 58 Kevin O’Rourke, “On the Care of ‘Vegetative’ Patients,” Parts One and Two, in Ethics & Medics , volume 24, numbers 4-5 (April-May, 1999), pp. 3-4,3. See also O’Rourke, “When to Withdraw Life Support?” in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 8, number 4 (Winter 2008), pp. 663-672; O’Rourke, “The Catholic Tradition on Forgoing Life Support,” in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, volume 5, number 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 537-553; and Jason T. Eberl, “Extraordinary Care the Spiritual Gift of Life,” in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 5, number 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 491-501. 59 William E. May, Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life , Second Edition, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., Huntington, Indiana (2008). See pp. 285-302 on "Caring for the Permanently Unconscious and Persons in the 'Persistent Vegetative State." See also Mark S. Latkovic, “The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients,” in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 5, number 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 508-513; Donald E. Henke, “A History of Ordinary and Extraordinary Means,” The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 5, number 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 555-575; and The Catholic Medical Association, “Response to the Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs Statement ‘Undue Burden?,’” in The Linacre Quarterly , volume 76, number 3 (August 2009), pp. 296-303. 60 Kevin O’Rourke, “Reflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients,” in Christian Bioethics , volume 12, number 1 (January 1, 2006), pp. 83-97. 61 NEJM Task Force Articles on PVS. 62 McCormick, “Moral Considerations.” 63 O’Rourke, “Reflections.” 64 See, e.g., Eileen P. Flynn, Hard Decisions: Forgoing and Withdrawing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration , Sheed & Ward, Kansas City, MO (1990) and Flynn, Issues in Health Care Ethics , Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ (2000), pp. 112-126. 65 Mackler, Introduction , p. 86. See also Lisa Sowell Cahill, Theological Bioethics , Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. (2005), especially Chapters 3 and 4 therein, where Cahill reminds us of the “…framework provided by the Roman Catholic tradition, which has for centuries provided guidance about practical decision making in times of illness and danger of death. This is the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means of life support, which is implemented by the principle of double effect to evaluate end-of-life care.” p. 73. 66 Mackler, Introduction , p. 87. See also Julia Fleming, When ‘Meats are like Medicines’: Vitoria and Lessius on the Role of Food in the Duty to Preserve Live,” in Theological Studies , volume 69, number 1 (February 2008), pp. 99- 115. 67 Mackler, Introduction , p. 87. 68 Ibid. p. 88.