Abstract
Advances in medical sciences and technology have nearly eliminated many life-threatening diseases in the modem world and have greatly reduced the morbidity along with the mortality [1]. For a significant proportion of mankind, advances in medicine and in other phases of our lives have led to a growing expectation of health and life-style that result in increasing assumptions and sense of power over the quality of our lives. It therefore seems the more tragic to us when some of us are born with, or acquire as newborns, those conditions for which our technology has promoted survival, but with no hope for cure. In a world that appears to be so much under our control, afflicted persons confront us with the limits of our power, and, in our frustration, we may become increasingly motivated to exercise freedom of choice over the fate of those for whom we feel responsible.
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Belton, H., Meyer, P. (1985). Ethical and Economic Issues. In: Thompson, R.A., Green, J.R., Johnsen, S.D. (eds) Perinatal Neurology and Neurosurgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7295-0_11
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