The ethics of and the appropriate legislation concerning killing people and letting them die: a response to Merkel

HV McLachlan - Journal of medical ethics, 2017 - jme.bmj.com
… duty of care even if it is, in some jurisdictions, the criminal offence of murder to … moral duty
whatever the law might happen to say. We can have moral duties concerning killing and letting

[图书][B] Killing and letting die

B Steinbock, A Norcross - 1994 - books.google.com
… stranded man's right not to be killed is stricter than his right to … our ordinary thinking about
killing and letting die. The situation … tion has moral significance, is clearly reflected in our law, in …

[图书][B] Fatal freedom: The ethics and politics of suicide

T Szasz - 2002 - books.google.com
… In Fatal Freedom, I argue that the right to kill oneself is the … choose to let people die on their
own terms or force them to … of the law against suicide has done: It recast self-killing from a …

Letting patients die: legal and moral reflections

SH Kadish - Calif. L. Rev., 1992 - HeinOnline
… of our most deeply held moral beliefs about life and death. Doctors … may not waive his right
to life; killing does not become non-… crimes at common law,' and helping another kill himself is …

Suicide and assisting suicide: a critique of legal sanctions

HT Engelhardt Jr, M Malloy - Sw. LJ, 1982 - HeinOnline
… This Article discusses the purposes of the law with regard to … of the distinction between
killing and simply letting one die, … of moral beliefs: although one may not be able to agree about

The ethics of killing and letting die: active and passive euthanasia

HV McLachlan - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2008 - jme.bmj.com
… are different from our obligations concerning the restraining of … are different from our
obligations with regard to letting them … to kill Jill and she has a corresponding right not to be killed. …

Assisted suicide and the killing of people? Maybe. Physician-assisted suicide and the killing of patients? No: the rejection of Shaw's new perspective on euthanasia

HV McLachlan - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2010 - jme.bmj.com
moral difference between killing and letting die. There can be … reasons, it is appropriate that
we make a distinction in law … inappropriate, inflated, grandiose view about the role of doctors. …

How do people use 'killing','letting die'and related bioethical concepts? Contrasting descriptive and normative hypotheses

D Rodríguez‐Arias, B Rodriguez Lopez… - Bioethics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… We hypothesize that these disagreements may be … action is necessary but not sufficient to
bring about the outcome.19 … , with a focus on questions concerning the law, ethics and politics. …

Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism

K Levy - Ga. L. Rev., 2009 - HeinOnline
… should be killed unless there is an extremely good, overriding … intractable moral and political
controversies concerning the … if our criminal law seriously condemns and punishes killing

[图书][B] Intricate ethics: rights, responsibilities, and permissable harm

FM Kamm - 2008 - books.google.com
… , holding that killings are bad or that autonomy is good, but … of our conduct (or rules governing
our conduct) is determined solely by … about killing and letting die to the more general moral