Exam 10: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

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Nowadays machines can keep an individual's heart and lungs functioning long after the brain permanently and completely shuts down.Thus we can have an individual whose organs are mechanically operated while he is in a coma or persistent vegetative state.To some,these facts suggest that the:

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Suppose legal guidelines have been adopted to allow parents to give consent for children to be killed if they are suffering from severe pain and are terminally ill.The moral principle of ________ could be used to argue for the guidelines,and the principle of ________ could be used to argue against them.

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In ________,the patient requests or agrees to euthanasia.

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According to the doctrine of double effect,a doctor's giving a dying,pain-racked patient a large dose of morphine with the intention of easing her pain (while knowing the act has the side effect of expediting her death)is:

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