Euthanasia Examined: Euthanasia and the value of life

摘要: T he moral significance of euthanasia is inevitably connected with the way that we understand value life and what it to uphold protect value. As argument unfolds I shall argue on a particular understanding life, voluntary as conventionally understood morally should be legally permissible. end by suggesting real problem euthanasia, its scale also horror not only misunderstood but largely ignored. concentrate arguments will ignore call practical questions. It sometimes suggested if were legalised, this would lead involuntary euthanasia. Similarly has been said legal possibility put pressure those who are old or terminally ill ‘opt’ for knowledge doctors perform undermine confidence in medical profession. These questions important have no space them here. believe, however, principle acceptable, these soluble good care.