HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Margaret Somerville, Palliative Sedation
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A death is only a consequence, you can only foresee it: you cannot intend the bad consequence and it can"t be a means to an end. The primary intent must always be to alleviate suffering: there must be no other method of providing pain relief without shortening life. Dde (thomson rejects it) why: she says dde is deeply problematic because, no one can ever tell the purity of the physician"s intent. You can"t keep one consequence in mind and ignore another: requires a normative judgement (personal judgement about norms). We must suppose that the doctor"s actions have good effects and bad effects. Euthanasia? ), with those of helga kuhse ( why terminal sedation is no solution to the. Terminal sedation by chemically knowing out their brain often by use of barbiturates and at the same time you withdraw nutrition and hydration (this is what the committee said is ethical and what is legal in canada)