Overview
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Rachels's "Active and Passive Euthanasia"
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Sullivan's “Active and Passive Euthanasia: An Impertinent Distinction?”
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Reading Quiz 3
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Rachels Lecture (2 Parts)
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Sullivan Lecture (2 Parts)
ASSIGNMENT 3 Rachels makes two major claims in his article "Active and Passive Euthanasia". There are two parts to this assignment: (a) What are those claims? and (b) Do you think Rachels's arguments for his two major claims are convincing? Explain why they are or why they are not.
ASSIGNMENT 4 Thomas Sullivan argues that Rachels has emphasized an impertinent distinction. This assignment has three parts: (a) State the distinction and explain the reasons why it is impertinent. (b) According to Sullivan, what is the crucial distinction implied by the AMA statement regarding end-of-life assistance? (c) How does this distinction map onto the active vs. passive distinction?
DISCUSSION 5 Is the distinction between intending the death of a patient and acting so that death is a foreseeable side-effectconvincing? Is Sullivan right that one cannot administer a lethal injection while intending something other than a patient’s death?