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Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Medical Ethics
  • Sociology

Background:

  • Commercial-assisted suicide (CAS) is a practice involving suicide assistance for financial reward via contract.
  • CAS is present in popular culture but minimally discussed in bioethical literature.
  • This paper evaluates the moral and practical implications of a market for CAS.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To morally and practically evaluate a market for commercial-assisted suicide.
  • To examine arguments for CAS, particularly those linking it to liberal defenses of physician-assisted suicide (PAS).
  • To assess the viability and ethical standing of CAS policy.

Main Methods:

  • Ethical analysis of CAS within liberal values (autonomy, equality of opportunity).
  • Examination of arguments presented by Roland Kipke regarding PAS and CAS.
  • Evaluation of market dysfunctions, specifically focusing on death as non-compensable ex post.

Main Results:

  • Arguments for CAS based on liberal values are contested.
  • A market for CAS is predicted to be gravely dysfunctional.
  • The non-compensable nature of death makes a CAS market inherently problematic.

Conclusions:

  • While CAS itself may not be inherently immoral, its legalization would create an inevitably problematic market.
  • The commodification of suicide assistance leads to market creation with significant moral and practical issues.
  • CAS policy is deemed morally indefensible and practically inefficient due to market implications.