Euthanasia scholars
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- Euthanasia
- Thomas More
- Utopia- euthanasia for the terminally ill was an important part of a perfect society
- Francis bacon
- "When such mitigation may conduce to recovery, but when it may serve to make a fair and easy passage"
- Germanic Grisez and Joseph Boyle (personhood)
- Cannot cease to be a person
- Human beings are one- cannot distinguish between bodily and mentally alive
- There are two certain goods needed for well being which euthanasia puts against one another
- Freedom and dignity against life and health
- James Rachels
- There is no difference between killing and letting die. Withdrawing treatment is cruel, prolonging pain and dying process
- Daniel Maguire
- Important to respect life but no one should be under an absolute rule to preserve it
- To give God absolute control is to make us God's property
- We intervene to save life, why not intervene to ensure a good death?
- John Stuart Mill
- If no one is affected by the decision, then the individual should have absolute autonomy
- Need for the individual to be of sound mind and to repeatedly request to end their life
- Jack Kervorkian
- Highest principle in medical ethics is personal autonomy- what the patient wants and deems important to their life is paramount
- J. Locke
- Libertarian- support complete autonomy
- Thomas More
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