Euthanasia
suicide * agent responsible for death
euthanasia
* a second person responsible for person dying
assisted suicide * person dying is the agent respelled for death
* second person gives access to the person dying
EUTHANASIA/ ASSISTED SUICIDE
Callahan
AGAINST:
1) Right to self Determination
Calahan: Self Determination and Mercy of Others. (It’s a social act, you can claim it’s a murder.) Aiding someone to die, is the new category of killing
***Believes that assisting someone in dying is supposedly a new category of an acceptable killing and he doesn’t think so
People think that helping someone die is not acceptable
Only 3 ways to take someone’s life:
1. self defense
2. in war ..legal war
3. killing by agents of state (cop killing someone)
WOLF
Argues that women are treated as gender discrimination in Euthanasia through the contrast statistics of more deaths by assisted suicide or euthanasia in women than men.
Gender also may affect the physician’s choice to grant or refuse component’s decision. Which brings the question whether we see Missy as a women that has her right to choose what’s best for her, or just an object.
COURT CASES:
Two court cases related Quinland and Cruzan
Quinland has people who cannot say for themselves because they are:
1. Sick
OR
In coma from accident
Quinland accepts hypothetical consent while Cruzan doesn’t In a coma and someone else is representing them
Knowing someone well and making decision based on what you think the person would want
Ex. gay boy case
Quinland (NJ court)
Family requests that respirator be removed but this is called battery
The person may refuse the right to want help
A lethal injection is like being raped because they are insertions in your body that you may not want
Washington Glucksberg
Washington (Right to refuse medical treatment/ for Liberty Right)
Quil
Equal protection
Cruzan (U.S supreme court)
euthanasia
* a second person responsible for person dying
assisted suicide * person dying is the agent respelled for death
* second person gives access to the person dying
EUTHANASIA/ ASSISTED SUICIDE
Callahan
AGAINST:
1) Right to self Determination
Calahan: Self Determination and Mercy of Others. (It’s a social act, you can claim it’s a murder.) Aiding someone to die, is the new category of killing
***Believes that assisting someone in dying is supposedly a new category of an acceptable killing and he doesn’t think so
People think that helping someone die is not acceptable
Only 3 ways to take someone’s life:
1. self defense
2. in war ..legal war
3. killing by agents of state (cop killing someone)
WOLF
Argues that women are treated as gender discrimination in Euthanasia through the contrast statistics of more deaths by assisted suicide or euthanasia in women than men.
Gender also may affect the physician’s choice to grant or refuse component’s decision. Which brings the question whether we see Missy as a women that has her right to choose what’s best for her, or just an object.
COURT CASES:
Two court cases related Quinland and Cruzan
Quinland has people who cannot say for themselves because they are:
1. Sick
OR
In coma from accident
Quinland accepts hypothetical consent while Cruzan doesn’t In a coma and someone else is representing them
Knowing someone well and making decision based on what you think the person would want
Ex. gay boy case
Quinland (NJ court)
Family requests that respirator be removed but this is called battery
The person may refuse the right to want help
A lethal injection is like being raped because they are insertions in your body that you may not want
Washington Glucksberg
Washington (Right to refuse medical treatment/ for Liberty Right)
Quil
Equal protection
Cruzan (U.S supreme court)