Euthanaisa, one of the most acute and uncomfortable contemporary problems in medical ethics
Date Submitted: 11/05/2003 12:18:15
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 6 pages (1606 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Law Issues
Length: 6 pages (1606 words)
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…conscious experience and thus can achieve no goods, experience no significant communication, satisfy no goals. Furthermore, adequate sedation, by depressing respiratory function, may hasten death. Though it is always technically possible to achieve relief from pain, at least when the appropriate resources are available, the price may be functionally and practically equivalent, at least from the patient's point of view, to death. And this, of course, is just what the issue of euthanasia is about.
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