YUTORAH: R" Zev Schostak -- Recent Shiurim

Holding on or Letting Go: Aggressive Treatment or Hospice Care? Making End-Of-Life Medical Decisions - Sep 14, 2008 - Lecturing at the 3rd annual conference of the YU Student Medical Ethics Society, Rabbi Zev Schostak, addressed whether Halacha allows terminally ill patients to refuse life-sustaining treatments such as ventilators, feeding tubes, and kidney dialysis. Must these patients always seek aggressive treatment or is hospice care ever appropriate? By seeking aggressive treatment, are they