Euthanasia Flashcards
Voluntary Euthanasia
receives the patients consent
Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
does not receive patient consent
Active Euthanasia
directly causing death
Passive Euthanasia
indirectly causing (allowing to die/letting nature take its course)
Passive Voluntary
patient consent to allow die
Active Voluntary
patient consent to physician assisted suicide
Passive Nonvoluntary
See Karen Quinlan. Non-consenting allowing to die
Active Nonvoluntary
Non-consenting physician-assisted suicide
Logical Slippery Slope Argument
a fallacy will directly follow through the argument (total wrong)
Does it follow?
Practical Slippery Slope Argument
A correlation (could be right)
Does it often follow?
The Question of Euthanasia
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Do I have a right to ask a doctor to help me die?
Moral Agent
Someone who has the ability to make choices
The Philosopher’s Brief
a legal argument not compelling practitioners
famous philosophers added such as Dworkin, Jarvis Thomson, Nozick, Rawls, and More
Main Point: people have a right to self-determination, that the court upholds/has upheld.
-considered a slippery slope argument as it is based on past judgements
-critics ask at what point do we stop allowing government sanctioned death
Kant would say
physician-assisted suicide is immoral
Can something be legal but still immoral? And vice versa?
Yes
Least problematic stance
Voluntary passive euthanasia
Most problematic stance
involuntary active euthanasia
Rights can established by…. and equally be taken away by…
wherever/whoever grants them