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Medical Futility and Involuntary Passive Euthanasia
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018Conflicts between providers and patients or their families surrounding end-of-life care are both regrettable and extremely challenging, interpersonally and ethically, for all involved. These conflicts often implicate the concept of medical futility. The concept of futility is too often conflated with distinct concepts that are more ethically salient ...
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The ethics of killing and letting die: active and passive euthanasia
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008In their account of passive euthanasia, Garrard and Wilkinson present arguments that might lead one to overlook significant moral differences between killing and letting die. To kill is not the same as to let die. Similarly, there are significant differences between active and passive euthanasia. Our moral duties differ with regard to them.
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Active and Passive Euthanasia: Medical and Legal Considerations
1984Amazing technological and engineering advances in the field of medicine are responsible for the outburst of literature and litigation concerning euthanasia. It is possible today for life to be sustained by artificial support mechanisms so that those who would have died quickly and peacefully a few years ago may now have prolonged lives.
H. L. Hirsch, L. A. Calaluca
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Why Does Removing Machines Count as "Passive" Euthanasia?
The Hastings Center Report, 1997The distinction between "passive" and "active" euthanasia, though problematic and highly criticized, retains a certain intuitive appeal. When a patient is allowed to die, nature appears simply to be taking its course. Yet when a patient is killed by, say, a lethal injection, humans appear to be causing his or her death.
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Non-Voluntary Passive Euthanasia: The Social Consequences of Euphemisms
European Journal of Health Law, 2007AbstractNon-voluntary passive euthanasia, the commonest form of euthanasia, is seldom mentioned in the UK. This article illustrates how the legal reasoning in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland contributed towards this conceptual deletion. By upholding the impermissibility of euthanasia, whilst at the same time permitting 'euthanasia' under the guise of ...
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The Distinction Between Active and Passive Euthanasia-Reply
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995In reply Gert is correct that there is a distinction between refusals and requests that is relevant to the ethical debate about euthanasia. I may correctly be criticized for not having highlighted it in my discussion of definitions and for having overly stressed the importance of the physician's intention.
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The ‘Right’ to Die: The Case for and against Voluntary Passive Euthanasia
Disability, Handicap & Society, 1987ABSTRACT The capacity to sustain human biological life by biomedical technology and improved life support systems has reawakened debate on the ‘right’ to die and euthanasia. How can the medical and allied health professions resolve the dilemma between a basic respect for human life and the changed conditions of biomedical technology?
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New developments in India concerning the policy of passive euthanasia
Developing World Bioethics, 2018AbstractEuthanasia and assisted dying are illegal in India according to Sections 306 and 309 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Article 21 of the Constitution of India. There have been a number of cases where the Indian High Courts and Indian Supreme Court issued differing verdicts concerning the right to life and the right to die.
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Carers' views on passive euthanasia
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2001Emad Salib, George Tadros
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