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"Voluntary, elective euthanasia becomes an option when no one steps up to pay for the extraordinary efforts." Generally euthanasia is considered an ethical opt
by fsloth 10y ago
"Voluntary, elective euthanasia becomes an option when no one steps up to pay for the extraordinary efforts."
Generally euthanasia is considered an ethical option when medicine can't help anymore, and any prolonging of life would either be useless (patient is braindead) or unable to mitigate the pain of the patient.
Personally I think bringing economics in wil obfuscate the moral discussion.
- yourapostasy 10y agoIn the US, officially-sanctioned euthanasia that I was personally acquainted with in a hospice took the form of death by dehydration and starvation. Both are barbaric, considered war crimes in a different context. In the case I was personally acquainted with, asphyxiation by rapid flooding of CO2 into the patient's airspace was prohibited.