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jparksx

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According to Rachels, the distinction between active and passive euthanasia:
 
 

a. is crucial for medical ethics.
  b. is a distinction without a difference.
  c. leads to decisions of life and death on irrelevant grounds.
 
  d. makes moral sense but not medical sense.



Question 2

Velleman believes that the notion of patient autonomy invoked to support a right to
  euthanasia:


 
 

a. is identical to the sense invoked by Kant
   b. is not the same as the sense invoked by Kant
  c relies on consequentialist outcomes that he supports
  d requires us to give all patients the means to implement their decisions




todom5090

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Answer to Question 1

c.

Answer to Question 2

b.



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