BIOL 2P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Principle Of Double Effect, Morphine, Leon Kass
23 Apr 2018
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Euthanasia: end of life decision making part 1. Requires some device or machine to continue to live, does not want us to remove said device but we do so anyway. Pas (physician assisted suicide: does not entail that the person who dies to be acutely suffering or terminally ill, those these conditions are usually the reasons for electing suicide. The patient is the direct cause of her own death; not the disease. (kervokian, the death doctor ) The right to die movement: as our authors note, the right to die movement has gained considerable traction in the. U. s. , especially in states like oregon: this group argues that patients should have the right to receive aid from physicians to accommodate a patient"s wish to die with dignity. But is there a right to die: leon kass: is there a right to die? (1993) argues that there isn"t. He begins by focusing on what a right is.
