Are the distinctions drawn in the debate about end-of-life decision making "principled"? If not, how much does it matter?

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  • Yale Kamisar
چکیده

The current ethical-legal consensus - prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia, but (1) allowing patients to forgo all life-saving treatment, and (2) permitting pain relief that increases the risk of death - is a means of having it both ways. This is how we often make "tragic choices."

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

دوره 40 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012