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MCDB60: CLASSICAL PROBLEMS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF…
MCDB60
: CLASSICAL PROBLEMS IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF ETHICAL THEORY
Physician-Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia
Euthanasia
:
administration of a legal agent by another person
to a patient, at the patient's request (ILLEGAL)
Patient Consent
Nonvoluntary
: the patient is incapable of expressing consent/non-consent but is done anyways
Voluntary
: the patient has requested euthanasia and has therefore presumably consented
Involuntary
: the patient has indicated that they do not consent to euthanasia, but it is done anyways --> murder
FOR
Value of Individual Autonomy
AGAINST
Being alive is valuable in and of itself -->
intrinsically
even in sadness/hardships
Mechanism of Death
Active: administration of a lethal agent by another person to a patient
Passive: withdrawal of life-sustaining interventions/treatments, with the understanding that such withdrawal will lead to death --> withdrawal of life support
PAS
: occurs when a physician facilitates a patient's death by providing the necessary means/information to
enable the patient to perform the life-ending act
(LEGAL IN SOME)
Dan Brock
Permissible Ways a Physician can End Life
Withholding of life support
: DNR
Withdrawal of life support
: pull the plug
Defenders
Abortion
Theories and Philosophical Perspectives
Utilitarianism
Consequentialist
Deontological
Kantian