Table 1.

The Various Religions’ Views on End-of-Life Decisions.

	Withhold	Withdraw	Double Effect a	Euthanasia
Catholics	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Protestants	Yes	Yes	Yes	Some
Greek Orthodox	No	No	Nob	No
Moslems	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Orthodox Jews	Yes	No	Yes	No

^aDouble effect: Alleviation of pain is allowed, even if it unintentionally hastens death.

^bAlleviation of pain is allowed, if it will in no way lead to the patient’s death.

Adapted with kind permission from Springer Science + Business media: Intensive Care Med, The world’s major religions’ points of view on end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit, Volume 34, 2008, Page 424, Bulow HH, Sprung CL, Reinhart K, et al. Table 1, © Springer-Verlag, 2007.¹²