Killing and letting die: an irrelevant distinction to bioethics

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Malik, Mohammad Manzoor
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2011
Subjects:	BJ1725 Ethics of social groups, classes, etc. Professional ethics RA1001 Forensic Medicine. Medical jurisprudence. Legal medicine
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/17282/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/17282/1/Killing_and_Letting_Die_An_Irrelevant_Distinction_to_Bioethics.pdf

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