PHL 302 Study Guide - Involuntary Euthanasia, Voluntary Euthanasia, Extraordinary Measures

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3: euthanasia is obviously an important ethical issue that arises in the provision of healthcare. Are physician-assisted or nurse-assisted suicides ever ethically justified: as we will see, a wide variety of practical, rational, and other considerations are relevant to answering these kinds of questions. www. notesolution. com. 5 (1) voluntary euthanasia and involuntary euthanasia: the killing of another person for beneficent reasons may be done voluntarily on involuntarily. Voluntary euthanasia: killing another person beneficently with that person"s permission, consent, or agreement. 6 permission: perhaps not, certainly not when they are mentally competent and have patently refused to be euthanized, but perhaps there might be certain situations in which it is permissible. : someone is comatosed, brain-dead, with little to no chance for recovery. Perhaps euthanasia might be morally justified for this person (even if they haven"t given consent and are unable to) on beneficent grounds: e. g. , to relieve the suffering of the patient"s family, to save money, etc.

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