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EP 119: Death and Dying in the age of Covid-19 - Sarah Wootton and Lloyd Riley

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The Doctrine of Double Effect

There is a presumption that everything is going to be ok. And wi i think told by doctors that things will be ok. But you know, tesee mentioned, in those horrific cases, w we know that, sadly, the reality is sometimes everything isn't ok. I thin i sustean incredibly complicated and unclear system to force dying people into. We say in the book that it makes deities of doctors. It gives them all the power of decision making in the relationship. They would find it much easier if their patients were able to make those decisions and determine how and when they die. If that involved using the option of assisted dying than so beit. But if not, there

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