Medicine:Letting die
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Short description: Withholding care
In non-consequentialist ethical thought, there is a moral distinction between killing and letting die. Whereas killing involves intervention, letting die involves withholding care.[1]
Also in medical ethics there is a moral distinction between euthanasia and letting die. Legally, patients often have a right to reject life-sustaining care, in areas that do not permit euthanasia.[2]
See also
- Passive euthanasia
- Vacco v. Quill
- Right to die
- Do not resuscitate
- Trolley problem
References
Further reading
- Bennett Jonathan (1993), 'Negation and abstention: two theories of allowing' in B. Steinbock and A. Norcross (eds.), Killing and Letting Die, pp. 230-56, New York: Fordham University Press.
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