PHIL 2805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Conscientious Objector, Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
6 Jan 2021
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Phil 2805 lecture 22 november 26, 2020 medical assistance in dying (maid) part i. If only suffering is the grading criterion, then surely incompetent individuals should be entitled to an end of their suffering just like a competent individual. Suicide carried out with the assistance of a doctor (whose role is typically to provide a lethal dose of a drug at the explicit request of the patient (oed) Even the term pas is contested because death is preferred over suicide . A physician write a medication that allows the patients to go get in the pharmacy. The patient is acting to end their own life and not the physician (the patient is last actor). We are more comfortable with the idea that the patient is in final control here. That said, not every case can have patients where they can take the prescription on their own.
