PHIL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Umbilical Hernia
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It is a substantive question whether euthanasia (assisted suicide) is morally wrong: focus of physician-assisted suicide, or medical assistance in dying (maid). What is medically-assisted euthanasia: very roughly: the act or practice of killing or allowing someone to die for reasons of mercy. Suppose to be virtuous reasons and not malignant or vicious. In the case of physician-assisted suicide, distinctions along two axes: modes of death. Active: actively bringing about the death of the patient. Involved doing something that brings about the death of a patient. Passive: withdrawing or withholding life-prolonging treatment: modes of consent. Physician administering lethal injection to a consenting terminally-ill patient. Physician pulling the plug" on a consenting terminally-ill patient hooked up to a life- sustaining machine. Letting a terminally- ill patient die in accordance with a. Physician administering lethal injection to a terminally-ill, comatose patient. Physician administering lethal injection to a terminally-ill patient who has expressed a desire not to be euthanized.
