PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Palliative Care, Involuntary Euthanasia, Slippery Slope
19 Apr 2016
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Passive - thru omission by not doing something. Provide human with rights to live or die by their choice. Sue rodrigues, patient m o o o o o o o. Lost in trial for her right to commit physician assisted suicide. Argued for criminalization of assisted suicide violating canadian charter of rights and. Helped change the way ppl think about options for terminal illness. She defied the law and took life into her own terms, died through euthanasia. Thus, it is argued, in order to prevent these undesirable practices from occurring, we need to resist taking the first step. o o. Non voluntary euthanasian (spreads to ppl who are not terminally ill) cited as possible outcome. Caliming permitting voluntary euthansia lead to support and legalization of non voluntary and involuntary euthanasia. May be a cure in the horizon that would work or control their condition. Society could be led down a slippery slope permitting other actions that are morally wrong.
