PHIL 262 Chapter Notes - Chapter Physician-Assisted Death: Assisted Suicide, Principle Of Double Effect
8 Mar 2018
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Active and passive euthanasia (page 336) (there is not a moral difference between killing and. There are cases in which active euthanasia is preferable to passive. If a cancer patient is going to die anyway, solely withholding treatment may just pro (there is no way to know when he will actually die) The process of being "allowed to die" can be relatively slow and painful. Being given lethal injection is quick and painless. Smith stands to gain from letting his 6-year-old cousin die, so he drowns him. Jones is in the same scenario, but when he goes to drown him, he sees the child hit drown all on his own, and jones does nothing to stop him. Therefore, if a doctor"s decision to euthanize someone is wrong, then it will be reprehens which way he does it (passive or active) We are taught that killing is worse than letting die. Active euthanasia is not any worse than passive.
