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Ethical Considerations and End-of-Life Care from a Thomistic Perspective | Prof. Christopher Kaczor

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Physician Assisted Suicide

The World Health Organization defines health as the complete well-being of a person in a physical, social, and psychological sense. If this subjective view of health is right, if the doctor's duty is to provide whatever it is that the patient requests, then you can see straight away how a physician assisted suicide would be morally permissible. And in fact, not only permissible, but really a duty. That leads to the idea that conscience rights for physicians who do not want to provide a physician assisted Suicide should be taken away.

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