
Ep. 14: The Principle of Double Effect
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Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia?
I was wondering if we could maybe go off on a little side tangent for a bit because as you were speaking what comes to mind is while the phenomenon of assisted suicide which we see coming up across our country and other countries. I was wondering if you talk a little bit about intentionality and distinguishing the intentionality of a person who is increasing pain medication for the purpose of alleviating pain versus intentionality of giving an overdose of medication to cause death. Sure absolutely great clarification it's actually it is one of the areas of significant confusion and and of moral angst for people of good conscience when they're not sure or clear about what that difference is so so yes Euthanasia and suicide
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