# The Sanctity Of Life Law Has Gone Too Far

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Dr Raanan Gillon
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Law
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/sanctity-life-law-has-gone-too-far)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Professor Gillon would argue that the judgment in the case of a patient in prolonged and incurable ‘minimally conscious state’, that she must continue to be kept alive with artificial nutrition and hydration, despite the evidence from her loved ones that she would have rejected such treatment, manifests an excessive concern for the ‘sanctity of life’ and inadequate concern both for patients’ prior views values and autonomy and about the use of scarce health service resources on patients whose loved ones reliably repor

## Lectures

1. [The Sanctity Of Life Law Has Gone Too Far](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/sanctity-life-law-has-gone-too-far/a9d328368b1e) (YouTube)