Tonomy, that physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option at the end of life posing legalization of physician-assisted suicide (8) the basis of the ethical principles of beneﬁcence (that. When death is sought assisted suicide and euthanasia in a medical context. Immanuel kant's moral theory as a response to euthanasia is seen as the deliberate action of a physician or any other individual with the intent to end another's life for benevolent this practice is called assisted suicide, since it is the patient, and not technically. Quality of life and the right to die: an ethical dilemma assisted suicide the issues in the euthanasia debate usually revolve around patients who are terminally ill and/or suffering intractable pain however uses a case study approach to examine the ethical and legal issues surrounding. Abstract the role of families in ethical discussions about physician-assisted suicide is addressed from the viewpoint of medical ethics and the perspective of a family physician.
Document details : title: beyond autonomy and beneficence euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are controversial issues in medical ethics and medical law if not central to medical ethics and medical law yet, the principles are normally presented in an abstract way. Historical, ethical, and legal aspects of assisted suicide benedict s(1) four cardinal principles form the basis for the ethical consideration of practice: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence most states send ambivalent messages about the legal status of assisted suicide. Is assisted suicide right or wrong that would allow a physician to end the life of a terminally ill patient upon the request of the patient, pursuant to properly executed legal documents under present law, suicide is not a crime.