The grounds for passive euthanasia are, as we have seen, the interests of patients, where their expected quality of life is so poor that life will be worse for them than death. But there are many other reasons for withdrawing or withholding treatment.
Active euthanasia: killing a patient by active means, for example, injecting a patient with a lethal dose of a drug. Sometimes called “aggressive” euthanasia. Passive euthanasia: intentionally letting a patient die by withholding artificial life support such as a ventilator or feeding tube.
Passive euthanasia can essentially be more torturous than receiving a fatal shot that is rather quick and less painful. Therefore, killing the patient for this reason has no significant moral difference as allowing the patient to suffer excruciatingly.
The reason why passive (voluntary) euthanasia is said to be morally permissible is that the patient is simply allowed to die because steps are not taken to preserve or prolong life.
Rachels challenges the conventional view that passive euthanasia is permissible but active euthanasia is not. This view is endorsed by the American Medical Association in a 1973 statement. But Rachels holds that in some cases active euthanasia is morally preferable to passive euthanasia on utilitarian grounds.
Active means to painlessly letting someone die; and passive means to prevent death from natural causes for merciful reasons.
First of all, active euthanasia is in many cases more humane than passive euthanasia, Secondly, the conventional doctrine leads to decisions concerning life and death on irrelevant grounds. Thirdly, the doctrine rests on a distinction between killing and letting die that itself has no moral importance.
An example of passive euthanasia: Not giving medication or not performing a surgery that would save the patient's life are instances of passive euthanasia. Make a conscious request or through a living will. Refers to a situation in which someone other than the patient makes that decision on the patient's behalf.
Alanazi and Alanzi have written that “[a]n example of passive euthanasia is simply letting a patient die without providing necessary treatment to save or prolong that patient's life” (emphasis mine) [11].
To commit euthanasia is to fail to see the intrinsic worth or dignity of the person. The judgement that what has worth, intrinsically, somehow does not have worth, is both logically and morally wrong.
For the good of the person killed. Which of the following is the best example of active euthanasia? patient a lethal injection.
The deontological, specifically patient-center deontology, is the best ethical framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of euthanasia because it relies on patient autonomy and making judgments based on the act and agent themselves rather than the consequences.
Examples include such things as turning off respirators, halting medications, discontinuing food and water so as to allowing a person to dehydrate or starve to death, or failure to resuscitate.
There are 4 main types of euthanasia, i.e., active, passive, indirect, and physician-assisted suicide.
Alanazi and Alanzi have written that “[a]n example of passive euthanasia is simply letting a patient die without providing necessary treatment to save or prolong that patient's life” (emphasis mine) [11].
For the good of the person killed. Which of the following is the best example of active euthanasia? patient a lethal injection.