Euthanasia
Euthanasia | Chapter 4 Preface
The euthanasia debate raises serious questions for dying patients and their families, as well as for ethicists and lawmakers. But many of the right-to-die movement’s leaders, and many of its most outspoken opponents, are physicians.
“What is really at stake here is physician-assisted suicide,” state authors Leon Kass and Nelson Lund, who are opposed to the practice. As Hemlock Society executive director Faye Girsh explains, “It is necessary for physicians to be the agents of death if the person wants to die quickly, safely, peacefully and non-violently, since the best...
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- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Should Voluntary Euthanasia Be Legalized?
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Would Legalizing Euthanasia Lead to Involuntary Killing?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Legalizing Euthanasia Would Lead to Involuntary Killing
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would Threaten the Disabled
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would not Threaten the Disabled
- Safegurads Cannot Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Safeguards Can Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Periodical Bibliography
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Should Physicians Assist in Suicide?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Assisted Suicide is an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Assisted Suicide is not an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Physicians Should be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should not be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
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