… One reason, I think, is that it is very easy to conflate the question of whether killing is, in
itself, worse than letting die, with the very different question of whether most actual cases of …

… close link between passive euthanasia and letting die; we do … passive euthanasia is taken
to be not just a kind of letting die, … letting die that we would not want to call passive euthanasia. …

… ABSTRACT: Ever since the debate concerning euthanasia was ignited, the distinction
between active and passive euthanasia – or, letting die and killing – has been marked as one of …

… moral relevance of the killing/letting die distinction, this chapter will analyse the types of letting
die actions, distinguishing the guilty letting die … active euthanasia and passive euthanasia, …

… active and passive euthanasia, euthanasia is passive when a physician allows her patient
to die, … According to the same distinction, euthanasia is active when a patient's death results …

… on killing and letting die.9 Some theorists understand the killing versus letting die distinction
as … According to what we will call the commissive hypothesis, the killing versus letting die …

… A Muslim approach to life, death and dying will also be analysed under active euthanasia. …
at some issues under passive euthanasia. Let us now examine the meaning of euthanasia. …

… To see why active euthanasia might be permissible, we begin by reflecting on why passive
euthanasia … person is let die or killed, this is not euthanasia: in all or nearly all cases, this is …

… in killing and letting die, and the appeal to moral rights seem … moral permissibility between
active and passive euthanasia, I … active euthanasia is impermissible and passive euthanasia is …

… killing and letting die. Those who would prohibit active euthanasia but permit passive
euthanasia point out that the former involves a direct act of killing, whereas the latter involves an …