PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Blood Transfusion, Appendicitis, Sue Rodriguez
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Euthanasia-highlights issues about the difference between doing/allowing and intending/foreseeing. Sue rodriguez-als-infringed on her rights to make decisions on her own body, the law as upheld, she was assisted to end her life; no one was prosecuted because it was done in secret. Robert latimer-killed his daughter with carbon monoxide, was convicted of second degree murder, he was motivated by a concern for his daughter"s life and her best interest. Concerned with an alleged moral difference between active and passive euthanasia, a difference between doing/allowing. It is permissible to withhold treatment, but it is never permissible to take direct action designed to kill the patient. Euthanasia-a good death, a death that is brought about either actively or passively because it is thought to be in the patient"s best interest. Familiar case-someone with a terminal disease, going to die shortly, the disease is painful and can"t be treated with medication, you bring about their death in order to spare them that pain.
