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 (for example, in passive euthanasia),[1][2] or other forms of inaction (such as in the Trolley problem).
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.[3]
See also
- Vacco v. Quill
- Right to die
- Do not resuscitate
- Rudy Linares case
References
- ↑ Thomson, Judith Jarvis; The Hegeler Institute (1976). Sugden, Sherwood J. B.. ed. "Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem" (in de). Monist 59 (2): 204–217. doi:10.5840/monist197659224. ISSN 0026-9662. PMID 11662247. https://academic.oup.com/monist/article-lookup/doi/10.5840/monist197659224.
- ↑ Foot, Philippa (1967). "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect". Oxford Review 5: 5–15.
- ↑ aafp.org
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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