
Peter Singer on Life and Death Decision-Making (originally on Bioethics Bites)
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The Role of the Patient in Euthanasia
If I choose to have a longer life of inferior quality going into pain and so I'd rather live in suffering even if it's acute is that the kind of choice that a doctor should support? Yes I think if that's what you want and if it's within the cost benefit ratio that the healthcare system works under I do think that's your choice. Even though you're going to suffer you might have a strong reason for wanting to live another month or two there can be all sorts of different cases. Now we've talked about passive euthanasia but the more controversial cases active euthanasia where a doctor or somebody else takes action which directly leads to death. Those cases are certainly more controversial especially at
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