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- Title
A legal right to die: responding to slippery slope and abuse arguments.
- Authors
Benatar, D.
- Abstract
The author offers views on the legal right to die, concerning violations and conflicts confronted among heath personnel in observing an individual's freedom to live. The author focuses on two arguments, the slippery slope argument and the dangers of abuse when considering euthanasia or assisted suicide as a legal right among patients. According to the author, if permitting euthanasia could also led to permit other actions and the related which are morally wrong.
- Subjects
EUTHANASIA; RIGHT to die &; ethics; RIGHT to live in peace; ASSISTED suicide &; ethics; ABUSIVE behavior
- Publication
Current Oncology, 2011, Vol 18, Issue 5, p206
- ISSN
1198-0052
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.3747/co.v18i5.923