The sensitivity argument against child euthanasia

G Keeling - Journal of medical ethics, 2018 - jme.bmj.com
Is there a moral difference between euthanasia for terminally ill adults and euthanasia for
terminally ill children? Luc Bovens considers five arguments to this effect, and argues that …

Against euthanasia for children: a response to Bovens

C Kaczor - Journal of medical ethics, 2016 - jme.bmj.com
If we accept euthanasia for adults, should we also accept voluntary euthanasia for children?
In 'Child Euthanasia: Should We Just Not Talk about It?', Luc Bovens answers this question …

To kill or let die?

D Isaacs - Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 2003 - search.ebscohost.com
Letters to the Editor Page 1 J. Paediatr. Child Health (2003) 39, 480–481 Letters to the Editor
13 March 2003 Dear Editor, TO KILL OR LET DIE? I enjoyed the paper by Isaacs1 about the …

Giving the terminally ill access to euthanasia is not discriminatory: a response to Reed

J MacKenzie - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2024 - jme.bmj.com
Philip Reed argues that laws that grant people access to euthanasia on the basis of terminal
illness are discriminatory. In support of this claim, he offers an argument by analogy: it would …

Killing, letting die and euthanasia.

DN Husak - Journal of medical ethics, 1979 - jme.bmj.com
Medical ethicists debate whether or not the moral assessment of cases of euthanasia should
depend on whether the patient is' killed'or'allowed to die'. The usual presupposition is that a …

Moral Permissibility of Active Euthanasia

RR Johnson - 2016 - duo.uio.no
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the moral arguments commonly presented in
the current debate on active and passive euthanasia in the United States. I claim the belief …

Child euthanasia: should we just not talk about it?

L Bovens - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2015 - jme.bmj.com
Belgium has recently extended its euthanasia legislation to minors, making it the first
legislation in the world that does not specify any age limit. I consider two strands in the …

Pediatric Euthanasia: The End of Life as an End in Itself?

HM Kaplan - 2013 - oaktrust.library.tamu.edu
The practice of medicine is rife with ethically challenging situations. Two areas of medicine
particularly lend themselves to this type of challenge:(a) pediatrics, which abounds with …

Moral duties and euthanasia: why to kill is not necessarily the same as to let die

H McLachlan - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011 - jme.bmj.com
David Shaw's response to Hugh McLachlan's criticism of his proposed new perspective on
euthanasia is ineffectual, mistaken and unfair. It is false to say that the latter does not present …

Revisiting justified nonvoluntary euthanasia

B Manninen - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The issue concerning whether euthanasia is 1) morally permissible, and 2) ought to be
legalized in certain cases is much more complicated than I initially addressed in my article …