Abstract
Since 1998, physician-assisted suicide has been legal in the American state of Oregon. In this paper, I defend Oregon's physician-assisted suicide (PAS) law against two of the most common objections raised against it. First, I try to show that it is not intrinsically wrong for someone with a terminal disease to kill herself. Second, I try to show that it is not intrinsically wrong for physicians to assist someone with a terminal disease who has reasonable grounds for wanting to kill herself.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 53-67 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Mortality |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2005 |
Keywords
- Autonomy
- Callahan
- Double Effect
- Kass
- Oregon
- Pellegrino
- Physician-Assisted Suicide
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Religious studies
- Philosophy