This paper questions the relevance of distinguishing acts and omissions in moral argument.
It responds to an article by McLachlan, published in this issue of the Journal of Medical …

Our goal in this article is to explicate the way, and the extent to which, euthanasia can be
voluntary from both the perspective of the patient and the perspective of the health care …

Background Euthanasia can be thought of as being either active or passive; but the precise
definition of “passive euthanasia” is not always clear. Though all passive euthanasia …

The conventional assumption is that killing a person is worse than allowing her to die.
Beginning with James Rachels' famous article “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, first …

As a nurse and policy analyst, my interest in the subject of active euthanasia lies in the
practical consequences of formal policy (for example, ethical guidelines), as well as the …

While I laud Abohaimed et al.[1] for taking on the important, challenging, and seldom
discussed topic of euthanasia, I am also constrained to point out some deficiencies (i) in …

Several papers in this issue relate to the questions of-or as some would have it, the question
of-(a) when and why to forego life-prolonging treatment and (b) whether intentional killing of …

This paper defends the acts/omissions distinction which underpins the present law on
euthanasia, from various criticisms (including from within the judiciary itself), and aims to …

There are some ideas that at first seem simple, but which become more complex and
profound the more they are explored. Great art, of course, is like that. When I first saw …

In the second of this two part series, I describe how in shifting our frames from one of human
purpose and meaning to one of efficiency, we shift the possible answers we get to our …