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What can be done for and to the dying certainly differs from what should be done, yet discerning between them is difficult. The dual move of deciphering the realm of the possible in regard to such care and deciding the narrower category of the preferable is inherently an ethical endeavor. It involves as much imagination as wisdom, since advocating just any or all kinds of activities would be dangerous. Hence, care must be taken when thinking about the care to be given.
Stories are lived before they are told—except in the case of fiction.1
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Walker (2012). See also Julian Barnes’s Booker Prize–winning novel, The Sense of an Ending (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), for a beautiful story of the devastation imperfect self-narratives can wrought.
Steinberg (2004):29. This was originally published in the Hebrew edition of the 1998 Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics.
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Crane, J.K. (2013). Genesis of Jewish Bioethics. In: Narratives and Jewish Bioethics. Palgrave Macmillan’s Content and Context in Theological Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137021090_1
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