PHIL 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Euthanasia
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Understanding euthanasia to involve either killing or passing up opportunities to save someone, out of concern for that person. Can distinguish between different kinds of euthanasia: Voluntary euthanasia: cases in which someone has specifically requested to be killed or allowed to die. Non-voluntary euthanasia: cases in which someone has not expressed a desire on the matter of whether they should be killed or allowed to die. Involuntary euthanasia: cases in which someone has expressed a specific desire to not be killed or allowed to die. This encompasses a whole range of different questions: The question of whether specific acts of euthanasia are permissible is also a different question from whether we, as a society, should legalize certain forms of euthanasia. There are practices that we tend to think of as immoral but that we nevertheless don"t criminalize. There are certain practices that we don"t tend to think of as immoral but that we nevertheless do criminalize.
