MODR 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eric Lindros, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada
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P1: owing to the fact that people should have freedom of choice. P2: [owing to the fact that people should have] the right to control their own body and life (as long as they do not abuse any other person"s rights). P3: since the state should not create laws that prevent people being able to choose when and how they die. C: consequently, we have a right to die in at a time and in a manner of our own choice. Because asking doctors, nurses or any other healthcare professional to carry out euthanasia or assist in a suicide would be a violation of fundamental medical ethics, accordingly we should not allow physician assisted suicide. 1[p: because asking doctors, nurses or any other healthcare professional to carry out euthanasia or assist in a suicide would be a violation of fundamental medical ethics],2 [c: accordingly we should not allow physician assisted suicide. ]