euthanaisa continued
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- Euthanasia Continued
- The slippery slope argument
- Once legislation is passed to allow voluntary euthanasia, there would be a gradual decline in moral standards
- Wyatt argues that Holland has experienced the slippery slope effect : In December 1992 newborn babies whose lives were predicted to have a poor quality of life were euthanized. older infants with severe birth defects were also euthanized
- Dignity in dying argue "In Oregon, where assisted dying has operated safely since 1997, there have been no cases of abuse of the law.
- Kantian Ethics
- Immanuel Kant claimed that anyone who takes their own life violates the categorical imperative.
- Suicide and voluntary euthanasia is morally unacceptable
- "Suicide was wrong because it would be contrary to the universal duty to preserve life
- Misdiagnosis
- Wyatt (1998) "Sadly, serious mistakes in diagnosis are not uncommon, even in specialist centres"
- singer argues that this is not very common and applies the utilitarian theory.
- Patient-doctor relationship
- Bowie - "killing a patient doesn't fit with what a doctor should do"
- Some doctors take a Hippocratic Oath- basically means a doctor will only try to save life rather than take it away.
- Bowie - "killing a patient doesn't fit with what a doctor should do"
- Human Experience
- Daniel James - 23 years old - paralysed from the waist down -asked for assisted suicide in Switzerland (dignitas) -wasn't prepared to live a second class life
- Matt Hampson - Tetraplegia - paralysis caused by injury from rugby - decided to live with his disability and founded the Matt Hampson foundation
- Diane Pretty - 44 year old woman diagnosed with motor neurone disease. she needed 24 hour care so she couldn't commit suicide.
- Failed to change the law and died from chest and lung problems in May 2002
- Debbie Purdy
- Suffered from multiple sclerosis
- 'Right to die' campaigner - wanted her husband to end her life. died in 2014
- The slippery slope argument
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