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Euthanasia and Freedom
- What are the similarities and differences between voluntary passive euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and voluntary active euthanasia? What other ways can a doctor end a patient’s life?
- How can we elaborate the claim that physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia give people freedom? What, if anything, makes this freedom valuable?
- Can a concern for the value of freedom support an argument against legalizing physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia? How persuasive is this argument?
- Is it worse to do harm than to enable it? Is it worse to enable harm than to allow harm? How do the answers to these questions bear on whether or not we should legalize physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia?
- Would legalizing physician-assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia lead us down a slippery slope? Does the empirical evidence support this kind of worry?