SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Quasi
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Soci 102 lecture 26: qualifies sanctity of life ethos. Definition - you still cannot intentionally hasten someone death by a positive act of commission (lethal - injections), however you can now withdraw treatment to allow someone to die (omission). You can pull their food and water, ventilators and allow them to die, they called it nature taking its course . Withdrawing food and water, respirator is now legal. You disguise it i didn"t kill the patient, nature did . )- not allowed to kill a fellow tribes person, would offend the. Ran into trouble, for persons severely disabled. In her early 20"s and gets a very strange disease - your immune system starts attacking your nervous system. Basically you become completely paralyzed, brain is totally intact. She got tired of living, wanted to die. But the hospital wouldn"t do it because it"s murder .
