Physician-Assisted Suicide | Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Sometimes Morally Justified
Dan W. Brock is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Brown University. He is the author of Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics.
There are two...Source: Physician-assisted suicide is morally justified when voluntarily chosen by a terminally ill patient whose life has become unendurable and whose judgment is not impaired by depression. Assisted suicide, when motivated by respect for the wishes of the patient, provides the terminally ill with a dignified, humane death.
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