How might legalization be achieved?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What kind of legal regime should advocates aim for?
The main business of this book is done. We have explored the nature, history, and ethics of physician-assisted death and the ...
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How should we think about death and dying?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we tell when death has occurred?
The answer to this question might seem straightforward: you are dead when you have stopped breathing and your heart has stopped beating. ...
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What are the options for a legal regime?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Must the illness be terminal?
The historical sketch in the previous chapter should make it clear that policies of legal physician-assisted death can come in various shapes and ...
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What is end-of-life care?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the end of life?
The short answer to this question is pretty obvious: death. But we can be a little more relaxed about it. Patients who die of chronic diseases such as ...
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What is the case against?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the slippery slope argument?
As the arguments in the previous chapter show, a strong case can be made for legalizing physician-assisted death. However, this is far from the ...
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What is the case in favor of legalization?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the relationship between ethics and law?
Earlier we discussed the ethical status of physician-assisted death, surveying (in Chapters 3 and 4) arguments for and against its ...
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What is the ethical case against?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the right to life?
Making the case in favor of physician-assisted death was a relatively straightforward exercise. Whether it took a consequentialist or a deontological ...
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What is the ethical case in favor of physician-assisted death?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the argument from well-being?
We now begin our inquiry into the ethical status of physician-assisted death, stating the case in favor in this chapter and the case against ...
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What is the history of legal physician-assisted death?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is it legal for patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment?
Earlier (Chapter 2) we encountered the doctrine of informed consent as a cornerstone of biomedical ethics and noted ...
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What might lie further down the road?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is nonvoluntary physician-assisted death?
We have now surveyed all of the ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted death, with one major exception. Thus far we ...
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