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Active and Passive Euthanasia [PDF]

open access: possibleNew England Journal of Medicine, 1975
The traditional distinction between active and passive euthanasia requires critical analysis. The conventional doctrine is that there is such an important moral difference between the two that, although the latter is sometimes permissible, the former is always forbidden. This doctrine may be challenged for several reasons.
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Passive Euthanasia

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1980
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Active and Passive Euthanasia

Philosophy, 1978
This paper is divided into three sections. The first presents some examples of the killing/letting die distinction. The second draws a further distinction between what I call negative and positive cases of acting or refraining. Here I argue that the moral significance of the acting/refraining distinction is different for positive and for negative cases.
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Passive euthanasia and living will

Orvosi Hetilap, 2014
This article deals with the notional distinction between murder of first degree and passive euthanasia. In Hungary, active euthanasia is considered to be a murder of first degree, whilst the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and Switzerland have legalized the active form of mercy killing in Europe. The palliative terminal medicine, when e.g.
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Active and Passive Euthanasia

Ethics, 1976
Recently the Canadian Medical Association has indicated its approval, under certain conditions, of some kinds of instances of what is called "passive" euthanasia. The need for some kind of ruling in this direction is made urgent by very pressing, widespread problems introduced by recent developments in medical technology.
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Abrams on Active and Passive Euthanasia

Philosophy, 1980
In her article 'Active and Passive Euthanasia' (Philosophy 53, No. 204, April I978) Natalie Abrams argues that active euthanasia is preferable to passive euthanasia on the basis of a moral difference between acting and refraining in 'positive' cases where the outcome is desirable for the victim.
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EUTHANASIA AND THE ACTIVE‐PASSIVE DISTINCTION

Bioethics, 1987
KIE: 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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