End-of-life issues are incredibly tricky. One of the first steps is clarifying the key concepts involved and recognizing that euthanasia raises different moral issues than physician-assisted suicide. There are different types of euthanasia (voluntary/non-voluntary; active/passive) and each type has its own moral concerns and legal status. Physician-assisted suicide has a separate line of moral and legal development that must be understood to adequately address the moral issues involved. Sorting out all of these different lines of reasoning and argumentation is essential if one hopes to grasp the moral complexities that may occur in relation to death, especially in modern times, when one may be kept physically alive on machines for a very long time.
Read Chapter 10: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in the text Vaughn, L. Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, 4th Edition. Oxford University Press. 2019.
After ready chapter 10, For this discussion address the following:
• Explain the different types of euthanasia and then further explain physician-assisted suicide and how it differs from euthanasia.
• Explain the core moral arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide.
• Which of these do you think are morally acceptable/unacceptable? Provide your reasoning for or against it.
please only use the textbook as your source
