Killing and letting die: an irrelevant distinction to bioethics
James Rachels’s distinction between killing and letting die maintains that there is morally no difference between killing a terminally ill patient and letting him/her die. Therefore, active and passive euthanasia dichotomy is a distinction without a difference. Hence, if passive euthanasia is allowe...
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IIUM Press
2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/17282/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/17282/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/17282/1/Killing_and_Letting_Die_An_Irrelevant_Distinction_to_Bioethics.pdf |