Euthanasia
Euthanasia | Voluntary Euthanasia Should Be Legalized
In the following viewpoint, Faye Girsh argues that it should be legal for doctors to respect the wishes of terminally ill individuals who request assistance in committing suicide. A majority of Americans support the legalization of assisted suicide, Girsh claims. She maintains that physicians already help patients to die; legalizing the practice, in her view, would make it subject to safety regulations and less prone to abuse. Girsh insists that physician-assisted suicide is consistent with a doctor’s obligation to relieve suffering, and that the option would be limited to the...
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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
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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