PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: J. David Velleman, Pain Management, Voluntary Euthanasia
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In euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, the bioethical heart of the matter is the moral rightness of killing or letting die for the good of the patient: other issues include legal and policy debates. The need for informed moral reasoning to come to terms with the heart-breaking realities is acute and likely to grow. Many legal- and moral-related individuals weighed in on this situation: state and federal courts sided with michael and in the end, the judge gave permission to remove end may bestow on that person a good. Some argue that there"s no morally significant difference between mercifully killing a patient and mercifully letting the patient die; in both situations, the doctor causes the patient"s death (cid:4666)by either. The usual view is that passive euthanasia can sometimes be performed by disconnecting a dying patient"s. If euthanasia in some form is morally permissible, its permissibility must be linked to the patient"s consent.
