A problem for the idea of voluntary euthanasia
I question whether, in those cases where physician-assisted suicide is invoked to alleviate unbearable pain and suffering, there can be such a thing as voluntary euthanasia. The problem is that when a patient asks to die under such conditions there is good reason to think that the decision to die is...
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BMJ Publ.
1999
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 1999, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 242-244 |
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