PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - James Rachels, Palliative Sedation, Joel Feinberg
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Jonathan breslin, phd practicing healthcare ethicist; institute for health, policy, management, & evaluation. Uoft joint centre for bioethics largest in the world. Video the onion: red roof inn. Canadian hospital gets death threats over baby joseph; worthless treatment versus worthless life. Physicians establishing a position and putting their foot down. Parents"s decision should be respected, regardless (keeping ic in mind) Course: philosophical issues related to death and dying, with emphasis on ethical issues; intersection of theory and practice. Advanced directives paper write one, discuss with a loved one, write about the experience of doing that. Death as an event versus death as a process. There is a point where nothing was there. There is a moment in time that is death death as an event (versus death as an (ongoing) process) Hit by a car killed instantly - well, not ceased to exist. ^ seems like there was a precise moment.
