Related Experiment Videos
Letting and making death happen, withholding and withdrawing life-support: morally irrelevant distinctions
1Clinical Ethics Committee, Toronto General Hospital, Ontario.
The Journal of Medical Humanities
|February 3, 1991
Abstract:
The author argues that there is no morally relevant distinction between letting and making death happen, and between withholding and withdrawing life-support. There is a discussion of possible adverse consequences in believing that there are moral distinctions. And then he shows that acknowledging the absence of such a distinction does not necessarily imply any endorsement of active euthanasia.