20212_PHI2630_Module 9 Euthanasia and PAS 5th edition_1

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Module 9: Euthanasia and PAS, Chapter 10 Reading Questions (M9A1) Make sure you know the key terms and the answers to any review questions for the Chapter. After reading Chapter 10, please do the following. Always use complete sentences. A. Employing the articles at the end of the chapter and moral theories when possible, please explain as completely as you can at least 4 reasons for thinking that physician-assisted suicide is morally wrong. Please number the reasons. 1. General acceptance of voluntary euthanasia will lead to widespread abuses. 2. Possible error and mistakes. 3. Terminally ill need to feel valued 4. Turning someone into a ‘’ nobody’’ violates the basis of all ethics. B. Employing the articles at the end of the chapter and moral theories when possible, please explain as completely as you can at least 4 reasons for holding that physician-assisted suicide is at least morally permissible. Please number the reasons. 1. Able to use organs for those who truly needs and can survive 2. was granted permission 3. Helps end the pain 4. Choice of the patient C. Using moral theories when you can, please explain your position on the morality of physician-assisted suicide. Do you think it is morally permissible or not? Why or why not? Explain giving reasons for your view. I think that physician-assisted suicide is morally permissable. Physician-assisted suicide is there to help the patients relieve their pain by their own choice and decision. D. The Chapter identifies at least 5 kinds of euthanasia. 1. active voluntary 2. active nonvoluntary 3. passive voluntary 4. passive nonvoluntary 5. involuntary For each kind of euthanasia mentioned above, explain what it is and say whether you think it is morally permissible or not. Give reasons to defend your position on each one. (Make sure you understand the difference between “involuntary” and “nonvoluntary.”) In active euthanasia, a person causes the patient's death directly and purposefully. They do not directly take the patient's life in passive euthanasia; instead, they simply allow them to die. The individual who is
about to die requests voluntary euthanasia. When a person is unconscious or otherwise unable to make a meaningful choice between living and dying, non-voluntary euthanasia is performed on their behalf. E. Read Ethical Dilemma case 1 ("Assisted Suicide or Murder?") at the end of Chapter 10. Please answer all of the questions for that case. The killing would be morally permissible as since it is by Locker’s request. There is a moral difference between physician-assisted suicide and Locker’s murder because when it comes to murder, It is done without the acknowledgement of being killed but Locker did acknowledge it which is not murder and just physician-assisted suicide. It would still be done as it was a request and that the person cared about his daughter. It has not changed my judgment as it proves that he was willing.
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