Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Involuntary Euthanasia, Jack Kevorkian, Euthanasia
20 Feb 2018
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Passive euthanasia: the ethics is separate from the legal status of something, active = doing something, passive = not doing something, active - roughly, involves killing a patient. This is often what people have in mind when they simply speak of euthanasia: they think of being killed by someone with permission. Be careful to distinguish killing from murdering ( wrongful killing") not all killings are murders: different because your life was taken away without permission, passive - roughly, involves letting a patient die. Standing back and letting someone die when you could help. Failing to revive a patient who has signed a dnr order. Turning off the heart monitor so family doesn"t start an argument to resuscitate. There are two kinds of passive euthanasia: withholding of treatment. Not performing a needed surgery or not administering a needed drug: cessation of treatment. You started the process of intervening the problem, but then you are pulling it back.
