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EUTHANASIA AND THE ACTIVE‐PASSIVE DISTINCTION
Bioethics, 1987KIE: The author examines various claimed differences between active and passive euthanasia and, if there are differences, whether they are morally significant. He refutes arguments based on acting vs. not acting, intention, double effect, cause of death, and natural law theory.
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Assisted suicide bordering on active euthanasia
International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2003A 44-year-old woman was almost completely paralysed after a severe brainstem haemorrhage. Even after several years of efforts at rehabilitation, she remained completely dependent on the help of others. However, a special device enabled her to administer (after careful preparation) liquids through the PEG catheter despite her poorly coordinated ...
Bosshard G +3 more
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Distinguishing Between Active and Passive Euthanasia
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1986The standard ways of distinguishing between active and passive euthanasia, act versus omission, and removal of ordinary versus removal of extraordinary care, do not have any clear moral significance. We have used particular aspects of the physician-patient relationship to make a morally significant distinction between active and passive euthanasia ...
B, Gert, C M, Culver
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Nurses' attitudes toward active euthanasia
Nursing Outlook, 1995Nurses have a responsibility to examine how they feel about euthanasia, about the processes available today for extending life, and whether their patients have a right to choose their own fate.
A J, Davis +5 more
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Geriatricians and active euthanasia
Nursing and Residential Care, 2002A study into UK geriatricians' attitudes towards voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted death has been published in Age and Ageing. A postal questionnaire was sent to 742 consultant members of the British Geriatrics Society, and 82% considered active voluntary euthanasia never to be ethically justified, while 23% supported legalization in some ...
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Assisted Suicide and Active Voluntary Euthanasia
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 1989Modern medicine has been enormously successful in saving and extending lives. No one can reasonably regret this, but it exacerbates a problem which has always been with us, namely, how to treat those who are alive, but not living lives they think worthwhile, and have no prospects for anything better. Under current Canadian law, one who wants to die can
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How to Argue Against Active Euthanasia
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2000Most arguments against active euthanasia, as do most arguments in applied ethics generally, take place within the framework of what can broadly be referred to as a modern, as opposed to an ancient, approach to moral theory. In this paper, I argue that this fact works to the disadvantage of opponents of active euthanasia, and that if there is a ...
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The example of Christ and voluntary active euthanasia
Journal of Religion & Health, 1986The Christian church's aversion to suicide need not inform its position on voluntary active euthanasia any more than it informs its understanding of the role Jesus played in securing his own death. When the ontological polarity of freedom and destiny is kept in balance and is in agreement spontaneously and independently, culpability for the death of ...
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