With regard to ethics and legislation, what is the significant difference between a doctor
terminating the life-supporting treatment of a patient in the course of his job and a greedy …

If a doctor kills a severely handicapped infant, he commits an act of murder; if he deliberately
allows such an infant to die, he is said to engage in the proper practice of medicine. This is …

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Frank Miller's article is an intelligent, interesting and important
discussion. 1 Its central thesis is that what makes killing wrong is not that killing causes …

In this paper, I support Paul Menzel's argument that there is sometimes a moral duty to die in
certain medical contexts. Then I argue that the moral duty to die might be extended to the …

To kill a patient who is terminally ill and wants to have his life ended is an act of active
euthanasia. As a society we condemn such acts in our legal, moral, and professional codes …

Several cases which have been considered by the courts in recent years have highlighted
the legal dilemmas facing doctors whose decisions result in the ending of a patient's life …

Is there a morally significant distinction between killing and letting die? In particular, is killing
worse, in itself, than letting die? This question has received much attention in recent years …

Ç A FTER ruling our thoughts and our decisions about life and death for nearly two thousand
years, the traditional western ethic has collapsed.'-X JLSo begins Peter Singer's book. As …

This dissertation centers on the extended investigation of three cases which should be of
interest to philosophical bioethicists. The first case concerns a physician's killing a patient …

An agent who takes his own life acts in violation of the moral law, according to Kant; suicide,
and, by extension, assisted suicide are therefore wrong. By a similar argument, and with a …