Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pupillary Light Reflex, Diffuse Axonal Injury, Corneal Reflex
30 Sep 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Freedman"s slippery slope argument for pas becoming euthanasia. Poodles are hunting dogs they will eat a napkin when it"s waved at them because they think it"s a bird: bonus question (2. 5 marks) March 27th, 2017 count as a living human being: we began this course with the question: who counts morally, we end this course with the same question as well: when should someone cease to. Is this treatment any more rational for a child than a dog: he can do nothing a child normally can do, for all practical purposes, he is a dead child, to continue treatment seems pointless, persistent vegetative state. If we are to err on the side of safety then why not wait until putrefaction (every cell in the body is dead): this would preclude organ donation, neocortical death sufficient higher brain function. Article #1: spital: the requirement for informed consent leads to needless deaths, the obligation to honour prior expressed wishes is not absolute.
