PHILOS 2D03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Peter Singer: Brain Death
15 Mar 2018
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Readings 13 peter singer is the sanctity of life ethic terminally ill? . Singer is a critic of the traditional sanctity of life ethics: it is at the point of collapsing. 3 different signs of the collapse: 1993 in deciding the fate of anthony bland, britain"s high courts threw out centuries of law and ethics regarding the value of human life a, 1993 . Netherland parliament put into law the guidelines under which dutch. Doctors have been openly giving lethal injections to patients who ask to die: 1994 . Doctor was acquitted of a charge in assisting a patient to commit suicide the mentioned events resulted from major shifts in western ethics. We are in a period of transition in attitude toward the sanctity of human life. Comas no reliable way to telling whether it is irreversible unless the brain damage was so severe that there was no activity at all.
