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
… is, in some jurisdictions, the criminal offence of murder to fulfil it. To shoot a … moral duty
whatever the law might happen to say. We can have moral duties concerning killing and letting die

Killing or letting die? Proposal of a (somewhat) new answer to a perennial question.

R Merkel - Journal of medical ethics, 2016 - jme.bmj.com
… bringing about a patient's death amounts to active killing or … , these principles have sharper
contours in dividing right from … law courts (in Germany, at any rate) actually deal with these

Not compassion alone: on euthanasia and ethics

M Dönhoff, H Jonas, R Merkel, H Hannum… - The Hastings Center …, 1995 - JSTOR
… a world or not-we certainly cannot expect answers that can … it is that we should speak of a
"right to die" at all, for any … decide that the patient is to be killed with an injection or whether the …

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 … to kill Jill and she has a
corresponding right not to be killed. … By our answers, we target particular elements in the causal …

Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: ethically equivalent?

LØ Ursin - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… We return to this line of response later. Another strategy is to … moral difference between
killing and letting die is that killing … is that we should change the rules of the game so that …

After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?

R Merkel, H Putzke - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013 - jme.bmj.com
… assault, the German legislature responded by enacting a new … history: the genocidal mass
murder of Jews in the Nazi era. We … We think that the necessary debate about circumcision in …

On Killing and Letting Die, Acts and Omissions: For and Against the Distinctions

R Huxtable - Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of …, 2020 - Springer
… an influential hold over our laws, professional regulations and – by … Merkel’s argument has
its appeal, although it inevitably … emotional reaction which should be put to one side in moral

To kill is not the same as to let die: a reply to Coggon

HV McLachlan - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2009 - jme.bmj.com
… on a false commitment to general rules that do not apply in every … The relevant moral
duties are different. Different … such self-regarding prudence as criminal, far less as murder. To …

Autonomy and authenticity of enhanced personality traits

JC Bublitz, R Merkel - Bioethics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… To which we reply: why should agents consider new traits from … Reinhard Merkel is professor
for criminal law and legal … plot to kill him, so he concocted a preemptive plan to kill the Tory …

No Matter, Never Mind: The Bodily Basis of Mental Integrity

I Persson, J Savulescu - Recht–Philosophie–Literatur, 2014 - torrossa.com
… ) new answer to a perennial question”. 1 This brought his scholarship on killing to the …
In other words, contrary to Bublitz and Merkel, we do not think that we possess a right to the …