ethics ch 8

from the Greek for "good death"

using certain death causing drugsmeans to bring about or cause the death of a person.

witholding or withdrawing a certain treatment and letting a patient die.

it is one thing to intend and do something bad as a means to an end, and it is another to do something morally permissible for the purpose of achieving some good while knowing that it also may have a bad secondary effect.

measures of treatments with reasonable hope of benefit, or the benefits outweigh the burdens to the patient.

measures or treatments with no reasonable hope of benefit, or or the burden outweighs the the benefits to the patient.

the person whose life is at issue knowingly and freely decides what shall be done.

persons other than the one whose life is at issue decide what shall be done.